Daniel Dennett (1987:61) characterizes the materialist monist view of the brain as a 'syntactic engine,' meaning it operates without fundamental reference to the propositional content of thoughts.

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• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

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• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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