THERE IS A CHEAP FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM Just say that our commonsensical account of mentality suffices for a theory, i.e., FOLK PSYCHOLOGY(俗成心理学) Folk psychology is assumed to consist of both generalizations(or laws) and specific theoretical posits denoted by our everyday psychological terms like belief or pain. The generalizations are assumed to describe the various causal or counterfactual relations and regularities of the posits. For instance, a typical example of a folk psychological generalization would be If someone has the desire for X and the belief that the best way to get X is by doing Y, then (barring certain conditions) that person will tend to do y If I have the desire for water and the belief that the best way to get water is to buy a bottle of water from the super market, then (barring certain conditions)I will tend to buy a bottle of water in a supermarketTHERE IS A CHEAP FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM: Just say that our commonsensical account of mentality suffices for a theory, i.e., FOLK PSYCHOLOGY (俗成心理学). Folk psychology is assumed to consist of both generalizations (or laws) and specific theoretical posits, denoted by our everyday psychological terms like ‘belief’ or ‘pain’. The generalizations are assumed to describe the various causal or counterfactual relations and regularities of the posits. For instance, a typical example of a folk psychological generalization would be: If someone has the desire for X and the belief that the best way to get X is by doing Y, then (barring certain conditions) that person will tend to do Y. If I have the desire for water and the belief that the best way to get water is to buy a bottle of water from the super market, then (barring certain conditions) I will tend to buy a bottle of water in a supermarket