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thinking animal argument: a standalone construct

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Metaphysics

argument that the human animal we are located with thinks, so unless we are that animal there would be two thinkers where we seem to be one.

In metaphysics, thinking animal argument refers to argument that the human animal we are located with thinks, so unless we are that animal there would be two thinkers where we seem to be one. This meaning comes from Olson (2002) in Philosophical Topics.[1]

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References

Olson, E. T., & University of Arkansas Press (2002). Thinking Animals and the Reference of ‘I’. Philosophical Topics, 30(1), 189-207. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics20023016

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