ABSTRACT
The main aim of this chapter and the next is to elucidate those things that are basic to the psychological construction of the mind. In this chapter I deal with the basic concept of action and its production. In the next I consider the idea of ‘I’ as an enduring substance with two capacities, consciousness and the capacity to produce action, and the issue of basic categories in the mind. In that chapter I shall also be concerned with how beliefs about the mind are formed from experience. In the remaining chapters I put this material to work in explaining some features of the common-sense understanding of the mind and how it operates.
