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Question 1

What is belief-desire psychology?

Answer 1

The way we attribute a person’s beliefs and desires and use these attribute to predict and understand their actions.

Question 2

What is a factive mental attitude?

Answer 2

A mental attitude that can only be held if the corresponding proposition is true.

Question 3

What is Disjunctivism?

Answer 3

The idea that different mental states can be subjectively indistinguishable. e.g. Dreaming is a different mental state than being awake but we often can’t tell the difference.

Question 4

What is indirect realism?

Answer 4

The idea that objects of perception are nothing more than mental representations.

Question 5

What is direct realism?

Answer 5

The idea that objects we perceive are things in the world.

Question 6

What is a factive mental state operator (FMSO)?

Answer 6

A verb that describes an attitude that a subject can take to a proposition only if that proposition is true.