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... Rene Descartes’ gave his rendition of dualism, referred to in the article as the ‘official doctrine. ...
The article, Descartes’ Myth, by Gilbert Ryle, analyzes this ‘official doctrine’, and gives a formidable argument critical of it. ...
Ryle believes that this is Descartes’ myth. In his doctrine Descartes places the facts of mind in the same category as the facts of body, and this is the category mistake.
Descartes knew that the mind and the body were two separate entities, but the trouble comes with explaining how mind can influence the body and vice versa. ...
The problem here is that Descartes is placing the laws of mechanics used to describe the body, to describe the mind.
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