Sentence examples for predicate dualism from inspiring English sources
There is, however, an important third category, namely predicate dualism.
Property dualism can be seen as a step stronger than predicate dualism.
Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are (a) essential for a full description of the world and (b) are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.
It is widely agreed that many, if not all, psychological states are similarly irreducible, and so psychological predicates are not reducible to physical descriptions and one has predicate dualism.
Until the early part of the twentieth century, it was common to think that biological phenomena ('life') required property dualism (an irreducible 'vital force'), but nowadays the special physical sciences other than psychology are generally thought to involve only predicate dualism.
(The classic source for irreducibility in the special sciences in general is Fodor (1974), and for irreducibility in the philosophy of mind, Davidson (1971).) Whereas predicate dualism says that there are two essentially different kinds of predicates in our language, property dualism says that there are two essentially different kinds of property out in the world.
The argument from predicate to property dualism moves in two steps, both controversial.
But Carson questioned this dualism.
But this dualism distorts Couto's vision.
This dualism repeats 19th-century German scholarship.
