Claim: Mental states are individuated by their relations to inputs, outputs, and other mental states (relational metaphysics).
“When we construct an object, we construct it in our own mind as a model of something. The model that we construct it of is the behaviour that we observe - functions that things are performing in the world. There is no hidden essence, but the only thing we have access to is observed behaviour.”
→ Every object we construct in our mind is a model of some kind of functionailty.
→ We impose the separation through objects and get causality as a result.
Hard to defeat the argument that we can’t know objects directly, but only by their behaviour / relation to other objects.
But aren’t objects… fully defined by their relation to other objects…?
Is that what engels said abt this stuff?