Common sense knowledge held by members of a society or culture, and incorporated, for example, into proverbs. A part of folk wisdom is folk psychology: the method used by non-professionals for explaining, predicting and manipulating other people’s behavior by the use of propositional attitudes (e.g., belief, desire, fear). A number of philosophers and cognitive scientists claim that our everyday or ‘folk’ understanding of mental states constitutes a theory of mind. Opposition to folk psychology is provided by eliminative materialism, sometimes called eliminativism. In its strongest form it holds that beliefs and desires, as well as a variety of other mental states, do not exist. They are constructions, and at worse fictional concepts, such as ‘mental energy’, ‘cognitive resonance’ or any term with ‘transcendental’ in it. <\/p>\n
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