ABSTRACT
Emotional phenomenology can be only an accompaniment to believing, desiring, or entertaining, and not that which constitutes the nature of a particular attitude. A natural response would be to say that a belief in the causal sense can be the categorical basis of believing in the dispositional sense. The quasi-quotational view is not part of traditional epiphenomenalism, which has been a doctrine about sensations. The dialectic is closely paralleled by the dialectic of physical object statements and their alleged reducibility to sets of conditionals expressed in terms of sense-contents. To derive observational consequences, one must make several assumptions about the world, and one cannot reduce them all to sense-content statements without circularity. The account is just the same and makes sense of belief attribution to animals.
