Reductive materialism claims that

a. beliefs are types of public behavior.
b. the concept of belief is a part of a faulty folk psychology.
c. beliefs are identical to brain states.
d. there are no brain states that can be correlated with mental states.


c. beliefs are identical to brain states.

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a. true b. false

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c. can be defined by giving an expression in which the term occurs andanother synonymous expression in which the term does not occur. d. All of these choices.

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One of the problems about superstitions relating to good luck is that:

A) Good luck can always be followed by bad luck. B) The concept of what good luck amounts to is vague. C) Good luck is always determined by fate. D) Good luck is only definable statistically. E) The occurrence of good luck can be explained scientifically.

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