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According to Ryle, Cartesian theory of mind is based on a confusion between :
Answer: C
According to Ryle the Cartesian theory rests on a confusion between mental and physical properties.
Ryle's charge in The Concept of Mind is that the 'official doctrine' commits a category mistake: it treats mental conduct as if it belonged to the same logical category as physical things and processes, only private and non-spatial. Because it models the mental on the physical, it invents a ghostly mind with its own hidden causes behind the body's movements.
Ryle's own remedy is to analyse mental concepts as dispositions, so a confusion between description and disposition is not his diagnosis of Descartes. The mind-brain question belongs to later identity theory, and logical versus psychological properties is not the distinction he draws.
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