...at our mother's knee and use in explaining one another's behavior.18 As David Lewis [1972] puts it: Collect all the platitudes you can think of regarding...are common knowledge, and I am going to claim that names of mental states derive their meaning from these platitudes, (p. 212) But such an account must...

...causal relations of mental states, sensory stimuli, and motor responses." He is interested only in "platitudes which are common knowledge among us - everyone knows them, everyone knows that everyone knows them, and so on," because "the meanings of our words are common knowledge, and I am going to...

...Armstrong 1968, pp. 84-5, and p. 90.) And he goes on to insist that Functional characterizations should "include only platitudes which are common knowledge...everyone knows that everyone else knows them, and so on" (Lewis 1972, p. 256). I shall talk mainly about the "platitude" version of the argument. The analyticity...

...issue. See Armstrong 1968, 84-85, 90.) And he goes on to insist that Functional characterizations should "include only platitudes which are common knowledge...everyone knows that everyone else knows them, and so on" (Lewis 1972, 256). I shall talk mainly about the "platitude" version of the argument. The analyticity...

...commonsense psychology with the psychological "platitudes which are common knowledge among us—everyone knows them, everyone knows that everyone else knows them, and so on" (212). 27 And he has no doubt at all that most of these platitudes will turn out to be correct. But...

...— 'toothache is a kind of pain', and the like. Perhaps there are platitudes of other forms as well. Include only platitudes which are common knowledge...are common knowledge, and I am going to claim that names of mental states derive their meaning from these platitudes. Form the conjunction of these platitudes;...

...commonsense psychology, or "the psychological platitudes which are common knowledge among us — every one knows them, everyone knows that everyone else knows them, and so on" (Lewis 1972, 208). These and an indefinite number of other such platitudes jointly carve out the causal...

...effect that one mental state falls under another 'toothache is a kind of pain', and the like". We should include "only platitudes which are common knowledge...everyone knows that everyone else knows them, and so on" (1972: 256). If that suggestion can be made to work, then each type of mental state is definable on...

...another, "toothache is a kind of pain," and the like. Perhaps there are platitudes of other forms as well. Include only platitudes which are common knowledge...are common knowledge, and I am going to claim that names of mental states derive their meaning from these platitudes. Form the conjunction of these platitudes;...