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It is one of the ironies of the history of behaviorism that behaviorists should have failed to see that the notion of a human action must be a "mentalistic" and "introspective" notion since it essentially involves the notion of human intentions.

A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics Searle, John R. 1972

A superb column also covering other examples of utter mentalistic madness.

Blast From The Past « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

The approach you seem to advocate is to simply bracket all questions about the referrents of mentalistic terms, and proceed according to intuitionism.

Are dem bunny prints? 2008

(Kasparov claimed to have detected "intelligence", but as we've seen these dictionary-defined mentalistic terms are all too vague for discussions like these).

Bunny and a Book 2008

In contrast, ID proponents attempt to equivocate on all of these mentalistic words – intelligence, will, choice, purpose, intent, and so on – and deny that operationalized definitions are required for any of them in order to investigate them.

Bunny and a Book 2008

Again the problem is playing fast and loose with mentalistic concepts just keeps the confusion going.

Bunny and a Book 2008

It appears you and I have similar views about a lot of these issues, but – as is so often the case – it is the mentalistic/teleological terminology that made this impossible to see until we went through a series clarifications.

Bunny and a Book 2008

So, the differences arise because we are using these mentalistic words differently, and not from differences in what we believe about evolutionary mechanisms.

Bunny and a Book 2008

But these are not scientific conclusions, and they are obviously using the same vague, ambiguous senses of these mentalistic terms that we find in the dictionary.

Bunny and a Book 2008

The approach you seem to advocate is to simply bracket all questions about the referrents of mentalistic terms, and proceed according to intuitionism.

Are dem bunny prints? 2008