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Despite this, it is not a popular view. It attracts neither those who think the mental is a basic feature of reality, nor those who dream of the desert landscape of physics. Moreover, it is difficult to develop the account in detail, and difficult to understand the nature of the neutral stuff which it relies upon. We turn now to physicalist rejections of proposition (2). 57 Logical behaviorism has a stronger and a weaker form. The strong form I will call ‘translational behaviorism’, and the weaker form ‘criterial behaviorism’.
Because they coexist with or are part of a thing that has irreducible mental properties but which is not itself a basic constituent of things. Also this leaves open that the basic constituents of things have properties which we might not recognize as broadly physical, but it does not allow that they be mental. Thus, constituent non-mentalism is a more liberal thesis than constituent physicalism. See Bealer (1992) for a general defense of these methods for discovering what is necessary and possible; a more recent book-length defense of conceptual analysis is Jackson (1998).
Prior to this, we did not know what concept it expressed. Once we know, we are in a position to see that ‘Gold is that element with atomic number 79’ expresses a conceptual truth, which is knowable a priori. What was not knowable a priori was not that gold is that element with atomic number 79, but that ‘gold’ expressed the concept of the element with atomic number 79. We competently use such natural kind terms prior to discovering what concepts they express. This is explained by the fact that we treat such terms as tracking properties that explain easily identifiable features of things we in practice apply them to.
