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This leads Davidson to speak of the mental as 'supervening' on the physical in a way that implies a certain dependence of mental predicates on physical predicates: predicate p supervenes on a set of predicates S 'if and only if p does not distinguish any entities that cannot be distinguished by see(see 'Thinking Causes' [1993]).
This kind of thinking causes people to feel shame and short-circuits our ability to think clearly.
"Semiotically signified magical thinking causes replicas to radiate aura and thus transforms them into fetishes".
One example of how this kind of magical thinking causes distress comes in the treatment of residents of care homes, who according to the report get a particularly bad time.
Davidson replies to his critics in "Thinking Causes" (Davidson 1993).
These criticisms have not, however, gone unanswered (see especially 'Thinking Causes'), and although Davidson modified aspects of his position over the years, he continued to hold to, and to defend, the basic theses first made explicit in 'Mental Events'.
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