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mental objects
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Plural of mental object
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Some realists think that numbers are mental objects (something like ideas in people's heads).
Psychologism is the view that mathematical theorems are about concrete mental objects of some sort.
Realists also believe that, whereas physical objects are mind-independent, mental objects are not.
Furthermore, as has already been shown, there are good reasons to think that the objects in question could not be physical or mental objects.
So sense-data are either going to be mental objects or at any rate very strange non-mental objects.
He asks, "Is physicalism a repudiation of mental objects after all, or a theory of them?
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There is no "third thing" that stands between the mind and external or extra-mental objects.
We then think of extra-mental objects as the causes of such and such occurrent experiences).
Concepts, in turn, are to be understood as abstract non-mental objects.
There are important differences among neo-Russellians concerning what extra-mental objects can be thought of directly and, more importantly, which relations (perceptual, communicative, etc).
Dretske describes self-knowledge as "a form of perceptual knowledge that is obtained indeed, can only be obtained by awareness of non-mental objects" (Dretske 1994: 264).
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