Gilbert Ryle's systematic dismantling of Cartesian dualism, arguing that mental terms do not refer to an immaterial substance but to dispositions and abilities of embodied persons.
The ghost in the machine is a category mistake: Descartes treated the mind as a thing existing in a different domain from body, when mental terms actually describe how the person acts and is disposed to act.
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