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Public meaning and mental content (language)

In this work, I discuss how our psychological concepts relate to those pertaining to public language. On the account that I propose, folk psychology has a behavioristic core that provides sufficient conditions for having beliefs and desires, and so a grasp of folk psychological concepts consists fundamentally in understanding how facts about behavior license our applying such concepts

Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1990