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    It is not the case that The logic of belief and other attitudes must involve structured mental representations

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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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    • 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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