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Full Idea
A 'naturalistic' explanation of content excludes primitive mental or normative notions, but allows causation, counterfactual dependence, probabilistic dependence or structural similarity.
Gist of Idea
Naturalistic accounts of content cannot rely on primitive mental or normative notions
Source
Peter Schulte (Mental Content [2023], 4)
Book Ref
Schulte,Peter: 'Mental Content' [CUP 2023], p.19
A Reaction
Apart from causation, what is permissible to naturalists (like me) all sounds rather superficial (and thus not very explanatory). I'm sure we can do better than this. How about using non-primitive mental notions?