Usually means: Commonsense beliefs about mental states.
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  1. folk psychology: Merriam-Webster
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  3. Folk psychology: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Folk psychology)

noun:  In philosophy of mind and cognitive science, folk psychology, or commonsense psychology or naïve psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people.


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