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    The logic of belief and other attitudes must involve stru... — Carmelics
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    The logic of belief and other attitudes must involve structured mental representations

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    • 1.Humans are not logically omniscient
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    • 2.Logical omniscience can be resolved by the failure of human agents to perform logically complete computations over structured representations
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    • 3.Structured mental representations allow fine-grained distinctions between attitude contents that extensionally equivalent propositions would conflate
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    • 1.Dispositional states grounded in causal-functional roles can account for belief individuation without positing inner syntactic structures (Dennett, 1987).
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    • 2.The intentional stance successfully predicts and explains belief behavior by attributing rationality patterns, not by describing internal representations.
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    • 3.If predictive adequacy is the criterion for belief individuation, structured representations are explanatorily idle posits beyond what functional organization provides.
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    • 1.Churchland's eliminative materialism holds that folk-psychological attitude terms, including 'belief', may not carve neural reality at its joints.
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    • 2.Connectionist architectures empirically demonstrate cognitive competence through distributed activation patterns that resist decomposition into discrete structured symbols (Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986).
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    • 3.If the neural substrate of cognition is inherently subsymbolic, positing structured mental representations as the logic of attitudes misrepresents the actual computational basis of mind.
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    A central issue in the treatment of attitudes is that of logical omniscience: humans are cognitively limited agents, and are not aware of all the consequences of their beliefs and desires. On this basis, Kamp (1990) argues that the objects of thought should not be seen as purely model-theoretic entities, for example a set of belief worlds, as is common in logics of belief from Hintikka (1962) onwards. Rather, the logic of belief and other attitudes must involve structured mental representations.
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