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Full Idea
Fodor asks the stirring and basic question 'How does anything get outside itself?'
Gist of Idea
How does anything get outside itself?
Source
report of Jerry A. Fodor (works [1986]) by C.B. Martin - The Mind in Nature 03.6
Book Ref
Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.33
A Reaction
Is this one of those misconceived questions, like major issues concerning 'what's it like to be?' In what sense am I outside myself? Is a mind any more mysterious than a shadow?