ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE : FROM PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS TO NEURAL MECHANISMS Paul
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propositions. But the current ascendancy of investigation of mental states and operations in terms of brain structures and processes makes talk of abstract propositions as antiquated as theories about souls or disease-causing humors. Moreover, philosophical theories of propositional belief have generated large numbers of insoluble puzzles, such as how it can be that a person can believe that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, but not that Charles Dodgson did, when the beliefs seem to have the same content because Carroll and Dodgson are the same person. Implicit in my account of abductive inference is a radically different account of belief that abandons the mysterious notion of a proposition in favor of biologically
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