January 1993
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the causal power of the mental is at once pervasively presupposed in common-sense thinking and widely disputed among philosophers / consider . . . propositional attitudes and closely related mental elements / main concern will be beliefs, desires, and intentions / these, after all, seem to be the basic mental elements crucial in everyday explanations of human action; and if cognitive psychology is to provide a broadly scientific understanding of our actions, it is presumably these or quite similar mental states that must play the central role (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)