The 'argument to the best explanation' for other minds suggests that because mental events explain an individual's own behavior and no other explanation exists for typical human behavior, one can postulate the same mental explanation for the behavior of others.

Authors

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

Sources

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

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• behavior concept
• mental event concept