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mel_77777:
I'm having a little bit of difficulty distinguishing between the views of Gilbert Ryle and Armstrong and it was mentioned in one of the examiners reports that a lot of students actually had this problem, so i myself am a bit worried that I've got them confused.

Could anyone clarify for me?

Thanks in advance

Menang:
Rylean Behaviourism tries to make crude behaviourism a little bit more plausible by positing dispositions as a person's default state to act or behave in a certain way.

Armstrong is not a behaviourist, crude or otherwise! He likes the idea of behaviourism because it's so... empirical. It's observable, unlike "mental substances" floating in the void. So he goes along this empirical line to use the Central Nervous System as the mind.

Armstrong believes that the most plausible account for the mind is that the Brain + Central Nervous System is the mind.
Behaviourists believe that the most plausible account for the mind is that the behaviours you exhibit is the mind.

mel_77777:

--- Quote from: Menang on November 12, 2011, 05:09:10 pm ---Rylean Behaviourism tries to make crude behaviourism a little bit more plausible by positing dispositions as a person's default state to act or behave in a certain way.

Armstrong is not a behaviourist, crude or otherwise! He likes the idea of behaviourism because it's so... empirical. It's observable, unlike "mental substances" floating in the void. So he goes along this empirical line to use the Central Nervous System as the mind.

Armstrong believes that the most plausible account for the mind is that the Brain + Central Nervous System is the mind.
Behaviourists believe that the most plausible account for the mind is that the behaviours you exhibit is the mind.

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Thank you, our teacher led us to believe that Armstrong introduced dispositions....

Aurelian:

--- Quote from: Menang on November 12, 2011, 05:09:10 pm ---Rylean Behaviourism tries to make crude behaviourism a little bit more plausible by positing dispositions as a person's default state to act or behave in a certain way.

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I would say "tendency" rather than default state =)

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