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A number of recent writers have argued that we should explain mental representation teleologically, in terms of the biological purposes of beliefs and other mental states.
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amplification requests, eliminative requirement, causal triangulation, other causal claims, contrastive questions, singular causal claims, contrastive model, noncausal facts, eliminative strategy, orientation requests, natural axiomatization, contrastive explanation, token causation, covering law theory, particular causal connections, singular explanation, parsimony argument, facts about the laws, singular causal statements, law thesis, compatible contrasts, supervenience thesis, radical interpreter, symmetry thesis, difference theorists
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New York, Difference Condition, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, Princeton University Press, Kegan Paul, The Free Press, University of Chicago Press, William the Conqueror, Minnesota Studies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Basil Blackwell, David Ruben, Englewood Cliffs, First World War, Hilary Putnam, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Michael Redhead, Michael Scriven, The Scientific Image, New Haven
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