All but one of the following are traditional solutions to the mind-body problem.

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All but one of the following are traditional solutions to the mind-body problem. Which one is not one of these traditional solutions?

Mental events and physical events are the same.

There are only mental events, and physical events do not exist.

There are no mental events and no physical events.

There are only physical events, and mental events do not exist.

Mental events and physical events are the same.

There are only mental events, and physical events do not exist.

There are no mental events and no physical events.

There are only physical events, and mental events do not exist.

Explanation / Answer

There are 2 solutions

Dualism - Which states the existence of both physical and mental events

Monism (traditional) - Which states the existence of only one of the types of events, it can be either mental or physical or a distinct essence which is not same as both of them.

so option (a) is dualism and option (b,c,d) are monism (traditional).

so answer is (a)

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