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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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