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18. Thought / C. Content / 10. Causal Semantics

[content is fixed by what causes it]

7 ideas
All ideas are adventitious, and come from the senses [Gassendi on Descartes]
Knowing the cause of a thought is almost knowing its content [Fodor]
Do identical thoughts have identical causal roles? [Fodor]
Do facts cause thoughts, or embody them, or what? [Sturgeon]
If thoughts ARE causal, we can't explain how they cause things [Segal]
Even 'mass' cannot be defined in causal terms [Segal]
Cause won't explain content, because one cause can produce several contents [Schulte]