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A dilemma for asymmetric dependence
Noûs 37 (2):232-257 (2003)
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Accounts of mental content rooted in asymmetric dependence hold, crudely speaking, that the content of a mental representation is the cause of that representation on which all its other causes depend.1 To speak somewhat less crudely, such accounts, hereafterAuthor's Profile
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