“Mental Events” by Donald Davidson
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“Mental Events” by Donald Davidson is a landmark philosophical paper that defends anomalous monism, arguing that mental events are identical with physical events while denying strict psychophysical laws.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16637338 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Mental Events” by Donald Davidson Context triple: [Mind, hasNotablePaper, “Mental Events” by Donald Davidson]
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Donald Davidson’s collected essays
Donald Davidson’s collected essays are influential volumes of philosophical papers that develop his seminal ideas in the philosophy of language, mind, and action.
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On the Theory of Objective Mind
"On the Theory of Objective Mind" is a philosophical work that explores how shared, externalized structures of thought and culture constitute an objective dimension of mind beyond individual subjectivity.
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Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
"Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind" is a major philosophical work by John Searle that develops a systematic theory of how mental states can be about or represent objects and states of affairs in the world.
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D.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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E.
"Facts and Propositions"
"Facts and Propositions" is a seminal 1927 philosophical paper by Frank P. Ramsey that helped lay the foundations of analytic philosophy by advancing an influential account of truth, belief, and the nature of propositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Mental Events” by Donald Davidson Target entity description: “Mental Events” by Donald Davidson is a landmark philosophical paper that defends anomalous monism, arguing that mental events are identical with physical events while denying strict psychophysical laws.
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A.
Donald Davidson’s collected essays
Donald Davidson’s collected essays are influential volumes of philosophical papers that develop his seminal ideas in the philosophy of language, mind, and action.
-
B.
On the Theory of Objective Mind
"On the Theory of Objective Mind" is a philosophical work that explores how shared, externalized structures of thought and culture constitute an objective dimension of mind beyond individual subjectivity.
-
C.
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
"Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind" is a major philosophical work by John Searle that develops a systematic theory of how mental states can be about or represent objects and states of affairs in the world.
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D.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
-
E.
"Facts and Propositions"
"Facts and Propositions" is a seminal 1927 philosophical paper by Frank P. Ramsey that helped lay the foundations of analytic philosophy by advancing an influential account of truth, belief, and the nature of propositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
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subject surface form:
Mind