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| having a property that is present but not necessary for the identity of the object |
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| the world that contains the events and instances that actually happened |
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| a test used to go against a proposal |
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| essence of being something |
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| the world where something is logically impossible |
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| belief and those who believe that the only thing that exists is the universe and there is nothing outside of it |
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| belief and those that hold the belief that the universe exists as well as abstract entities (such as God) |
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| the world in which the events are possible but did not actually occur |
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| things that can explain something at the same time |
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| entities that can related two or more things and can be in more than one thing at a time |
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| a counterexample that is used to test the liability of an argument using intuition |
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| that can be or relate to more than one thing at once |
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| all spatialtemporal matter that can be discovered by science and sense |
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| the universe plus all abstract entities |
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| if unconcious machines can respond to an input in the same way that a conscious being can than mental states must exist |
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| eliminitative materialism |
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| mental states do not exist |
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| theory that states terms referring to mental states offer commonplace esplnations for reactions |
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| the view that a human is a machine and is equipped w/ "software" that gives it a set of instructions on how to respond to input |
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| experiances are backward for different beings but are accepted to be true because of what has been taught |
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| a mental state occurs because of a response to something happening and if that stimulant is not present the mental state can not be the same |
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| necessary and sufficient properties are not needed to define a mental state |
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| philosophical behaviorism |
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| a mental state is the response one makes to an occurance |
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| if dualism is true, then why would one expect just one mind to be attached to one body? |
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| if dualism is true we can't know other people ahve mental states because those states are private mental occurances |
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| it is possible to provide necessary and sifficient conditions for any mental state |
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| a specific instance of a type |
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| token token identity theory |
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| no set of conditions that can identify a general mental state with a general brain state |
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| a general category for entities |
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| type type identity theory |
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| each mental token is identical to a brain state but there is no identity between types |
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| the belief that humans exist both physically and mentally |
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| incapable of being mistaken |
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| the only substances that can exist are material substances |
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| something only the bearer of the mental state can know or experiance |
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| is the human made of matter, or matter and mind? and if matter and mind how do they interact |
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| do not multiply entities beyond what is necessary to explain phenomena |
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| the belief that the human exists only physically, not mentally |
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| properties that can be defined by natural science |
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| some material entities have only physical properties |
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| having a certain mental attitude towards a state of affairs |
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| having the intention of doing something |
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| mental properties, mental states |
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| the experiance one has during an event |
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| the brain is a physical property that has physical qualites and the mind is a mental entity that holds mental qualities |
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| an object is itself at one specific instant of time, it anything is taken away or added to it, it looses its identity |
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| absolute view of personal identity |
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| personal identity is all or nothing, unanalyzable |
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| empiricist view of personal identity |
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| identity changes by degrees, person is a series of stages, there is no substantive soul |
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| first personal perspective |
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| vantage point in which ones sees the world |
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| immediate resurrection view on immortality |
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| when ones dies they immediately receive a temporal body until the resurrection when they receive a new body |
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| an entity is the same through time as long as it keeps most of its physical properties that are not essential properties |
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| memory view of persona identity |
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| a person is the "same" person if they have the same memories |
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| essentialism that applies to artifacts, if it looses any part of itself it looses its identity |
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| re-creation view of immortality |
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| once a person dies they are extinct and at the resurrection god creates a whole new body from nothing |
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| point of view of an observer |
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| traditional view on immortality |
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| god alone posseses immortality, at death a person recives a temporary body until the resurrection when they receive a new body |
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