Analytic Functionalism Like the logical behaviorism from which it emerged, the goal of analytic functionalism is to provide" topic-neutral translations, or analyses, of our ordinary mental state terms or concepts. analytic functionalism, of course, has richer resources than logical behaviorism for such translations, since it permits reference to the causal relations that a mental state has to stimulations behavior, and other mental states. Thus the statement "Blanca wants some coffee need not be rendered, as logical behaviorism requires, in terms such as "Blanca is disposed to order coffee when it is offered, but rather as"Blanca is disposed to order coffee when it is offered, if she has no stronger desire to avoid coffee. But this requires any functional" theory acceptable to analytic functionalists to include only generalizations about mental states, their environmental causes, and their joint effects on behavior that are so widely known and"platitudinous as to count as analyzing our ordinary concepts of the mental states in questionAnalytic Functionalism  Like the logical behaviorism from which it emerged, the goal of analytic functionalism is to provide “topic-neutral” translations, or analyses, of our ordinary mental state terms or concepts. Analytic functionalism, of course, has richer resources than logical behaviorism for such translations, since it permits reference to the causal relations that a mental state has to stimulations, behavior, and other mental states. Thus the statement “Blanca wants some coffee” need not be rendered, as logical behaviorism requires, in terms such as “Blanca is disposed to order coffee when it is offered”, but rather as “Blanca is disposed to order coffee when it is offered, if she has no stronger desire to avoid coffee”. But this requires any functional “theory” acceptable to analytic functionalists to include only generalizations about mental states, their environmental causes, and their joint effects on behavior that are so widely known and “platitudinous” as to count as analyzing our ordinary concepts of the mental states in question