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00100	ASCRIPTIVE DEFINITIONS
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00400		Our object is to introduce what we shall call %2ascriptive%1
00500	definitions and compare them with %2behavioral%1 and %2structural%1 definitions.
00600	Ascriptive definitions are more powerful, though perhaps harder to handle,
00700	and we shall show that concepts like %2belief%1 and %2wanting%1 that
00800	resist behavioral and structural definition admit ascriptive definition.
00900	We will further argue that ascriptive definitions of these notions
01000	correspond to our common sense ideas.  Moreover, failure to recognize
01100	the possibility of ascriptive definition has led to the incorrect conclusion
01200	that certain notions cannot be defined at all for material systems, and
01300	therefore people - who believe and want - cannot be material systems.
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