Justin: _You_ define propositions as mental states. That is a dumb view. Since you are speaking frankly, I will too. No one thinks that propositions are mental states. That's silly.
^^^^^ CB: Well, the proposition "No one thinks that propositions are mental states" is clearly false, since Jim and I think that propositions are mental states. Our thinking is a mental state. So, the proposition " propositions are mental states" is a mental state, our mental state/process. ^^^^^^ Propositions are the contents of some mental states. Thus belief is a mental state, but a specific belief, that capitalism sucks, has the propositional content "capitalism sucks," which is not a mental state, but a proposition describing a state of affairs in the world. (Possibly true, possiblr flase, but that;s never no mind.)
