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David Lewis defended the naïve solution to this problem on the grounds that its hypothesis is more “natural and eligible.” The view that this problem is concerned with normative expressions is an objection to reductive dispositionalism, which is a “straight” response to it. Paul Boghossian’s review of the literature on this problem distinguishes Sellarsian and Gricean views of whether meaning is prior to mental content. A philosopher compared Hume’s response to the problem of causation to a (*) skeptical solution to this problem that its formulator may not have believed. This paradox is often introduced by beginning an arithmetic (10[1])sequence. Saul Kripke’s illustration of this paradox posits a function that behaves like (10[1])addition for numbers below 57, called quus (“KWOOSE”). For 10 points, (-5[1])what paradox from Philosophical Investigations concerns our ability to infer the principles governing others’ behavior? ■END■ (0[1])

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