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Definition |
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thought |
An intentional mental phenomenon which has contents about things in the world. |
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token identity thesis |
The view that for each mental event token there is a physical event token that it is numerically identical to. |
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truth, correspondence theory of |
A correspondence theory of truth includes the assertion that a sentence (or proposition) is true if and only if that which the sentence expresses corresponds to the 'facts' or to 'reality'. |
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Turing machine |
A simple mechanical device consisting solely of a tape, a read/write head, and a finite state machine. Turing was able to show that this machine is able to perform all the operations a person working with a logical system would be able to perform. |
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Turing test |
A test devised by Alan Turing in the 1950s to test for machine intelligence. |
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twin earth |
The duplicate planet in a series of thought experiments inspired by Hilary Putnam. See externalism. |
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