One event can be described in many different ways.
Suppose that I arrive home, and turn on the light. This one event is both an illuminating of the room and a rising of my arm. Unbeknownst to me, it may also be an alerting of the prowler who is riffling through my wardrobe. This point shapes Davidson’s answers to the questions about deterministic law connecting two events – he claims, for instance, that if one event causes another then the two events can be described in such a way that they are connected by an appropriate causal law.
Finally, two events are causally related if they have descriptions that instantiate a strict law. So, Davidson concludes, the mental causally interacts with the physical. Thus we arrive at the position that Davidson calls Anomalous Monism: mental events are identical with physical events, despite the absence of strict laws that connect them.
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