"There are no strict deterministic laws on the basis of which mental events can be predicted and explained".
Propositional attitudes have certain features that distinguish them from physical states and events, says Davidson. For Davidson there is no "underlying mental reality whose laws we can study in abstraction from the normative and holistic perspectives of interpretation." His theory of propositional attitudes is guided by conclusions drawn from the project of Radical Interpretation, a project initiated by Quine. Davidson's teacher, W.V.O. Quine, challenged two central tenets of Logical Positivism: reductionism and the analytic/synthetic distinction.
Following in Quine’s footsteps, Davidson does away with what he considers to be the third and last dogma of empiricism: the dogma of the dualism of scheme and reality.
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