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Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 December 2011 08:21:58PM 2 points [-]

I mean that we often encounter both religious and sociopolitical explanations involving entities for which no strong evidence exists, and that I see no benefit to differentially focusing my attention on the subset of that set of explanations that involves ontologically basic mental entities.

I don't believe that sociopolitical explanations often involve ontologically basic mental entities, whether supernatural or not.