Terminology

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Terminology

• Anti-individualism (about properties) A property
  is anti-individualist if and only if (iff) its
  specification makes ineliminable reference to
  parts of space-time beyond the boundary of the
  individual that instantiates (or has) the
  property.
• A particular content is broad iff being in a
  state with that content is an anti-individualist
  property.

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More Terminology

• Intrinsic properties are properties preserved by
  physical duplicates (on the simplifying
  assumption that physical properties are
  themselves intrinsic).
• Supervenience The distribution of A properties
  supervenes on the distribution of B properties
  iff there can be no change in the dist. of A
  properties without a change in the dist. of B
  properties.

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More terminology

• A-properties locally supervene on B-properties
  iff there can be no change in the A-properties of
  an individual without a change in B-properties of
  that individual.
• Narrow content is content that supervenes locally
  on the intrinsic properties of the individual
  subject.

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More terminology

• Multiple realizability A property (or state, or
  kind) M is multiply realizable if it can take
  more than one physical form.
• More technically, if and only if, there is more
  than one property at a different (typically
  lower) level the instantiation of which is
  sufficient for somethings being M.

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The equivalence of talk about MR and Supervenience

• Assume that A properties do not supervene on B
  properties.
• Then there could be a change in one of the
  individuals A properties without a change in
  his/her B properties.
• In which case, the B properties would not realize
  the A property in question. For the B properties
  would not be sufficient for the instantiation of
  the A property (the instantiation of the B
  properties would be consistent with the presence
  of more than one A property).

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Two-factor theories

• Mental content consists of two-factors one
  broad, one narrow.
• Often the internal factor is take to be
  conceptual or inferential role the set of
  associations or inferences that a concept enters
  into.

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• Some externalist arguments are supposed to show
  that the broad factor is not a function of the
  narrow one.
• The same narrow content is supposed to be
  consistent with different broad contents,
  depending on the contribution of the external
  environment.

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Concepts v. conceptions (conceptualizations)

• On Sawyers view, the concept is the shared
  individual unit.
• Conceptualizations are like knowledge structures
  or sets of beliefs theyre constructed out of
  shared concepts, and variation in these, from
  subject to subject, explains the differences in
  behavior from one person to the next.