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Our first problem, mental anomalism, was that our practice of mutually ascribing mental states to each other in order to explain each other’s actions does not seem to be a matter of applying any laws. Yet, explaining action definitely seems to be causal explanation, and causation and natural law do seem to be intimately linked.
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De Muijnck, W. (2003). The Five Problems Once Again. In: Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0121-1_21
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