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    It is not the case that The Cartesian theory of mind rests on a category mistake and its apparent problems can be dissolved rather than solved

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    • 1.Mental concepts such as believing, knowing, aspiring, and detesting are dispositional, not acts or processes
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    • 2.The Cartesian theory represents mental concepts as covert, unobservable acts or processes
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    • 3.Misrepresenting the logical category of an expression generates pseudo-problems rather than genuine philosophical puzzles
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument shows that a purely inner mental realm with its own intrinsic properties is conceptually incoherent.
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    • 2.If inner mental states cannot be individuated without public behavioral criteria, Cartesian substance dualism presupposes a logically impossible ontology.
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    • 3.Ryle's dissolution strategy is thus not merely deflationary but follows from the positive thesis that mental vocabulary is criterially tied to observable dispositions.
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    • 1.Sellars's critique of the 'Myth of the Given' demonstrates that raw introspective episodes cannot serve as epistemically foundational without conceptual mediation.
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    • 2.Cartesian privileged access to a private mental theater requires precisely this kind of unmediated givenness, which Sellars shows is a category confusion between causal and justificatory relations.
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    • 3.Therefore, the apparent explanatory gap between mind and body is generated by illicitly treating 'knowing one's own states' as a categorically different act from knowledge governed by public norms.
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