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  • So Kantian innateness is essentially a procedure-based innateness, consisting in an a priori active readiness of the mind for implementing rules of synthesis, as opposed to the content-based innateness of Cartesian and Leibnizian innate ideas, according to which an infinitely large supply of complete (e.g., mathematical) beliefs, propositions, or concepts themselves are either occurrently or dispositionally intrinsic to the mind.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • This is not to deny that, at the moment I reflect on the evidence, I occurrently judge that encounters with black cats are harmless.

    Self-Knowledge Gertler, Brie 2008

  • You probably don't occurrently love your mother or desire not to get cancer right now -- you're in these states dispositionally, and that's why one could attribute them to you at this moment.

    Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007

  • As Dennett pointed out long ago (1978b), I can be said to know, or to be aware, that zebras in the wild don't wear overcoats, even though I have never actually considered the matter, because I am disposed to assent to that proposition in light of what I occurrently know.

    Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers, Peter 2007

  • You probably don't occurrently love your mother or desire not to get cancer right now -- you're in these states dispositionally, and that's why one could attribute them to you at this moment.

    Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007

  • When that representation is retrieved from memory for active deployment in reasoning or planning, the subject occurrently believes P.

    Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

  • When it does, he possesses the belief occurrently.

    Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

  • Here we assume that if some mental state occurrently exists or obtains at some time, then one can turn one's attention to that state at that time.

    Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification Pappas, George 2005

  • (x): that is, we cannot be reminded of what we are occurrently thinking about.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • Implicit beliefs are, perhaps, necessarily dispositional in the sense of the previous subsection, if occurrently deploying a belief requires explicitly tokening a representation of it; but explicit beliefs may plausibly be dispositional or occurrent.)

    Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

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