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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Propositional Attitudes"”.
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Propositional attitudes and indexicality : a cross categorial approach
… across sortal domains, and develop a theory of propositional attitudes and indexicality that captures these facts, and treats all three categories on a par. First, we extend the notion of 'Sequence' phenomena from tense to person. In Russian, the tense of a direct discourse can be preserved in …
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Seeing through opacity : a defense of the Russellian view of propositional attitudes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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Enzo and Me : essay concerning the mental lives of humans and other animals
(cont.) Dennett's and Fodor's positions on propositional attitudes, and offer alternative criteria to theirs for what features a system must have to have propositional attitudes.
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Action, intention and knowledge
… (Ch. 3). I then argue that intentions are not propositional attitudes (Ch. 4), thus ruling out any version of CI – if intentions were beliefs they would have to be propositional attitudes. Part Three considers the remaining options for Intentionalism. According to Non-Cognitivist Intentionalism …
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Beliefs in an Opaque Brain
… of two different ways in which terms denoting propositional attitudes, such as 'belief', are used in its formulation. Distinguishing between the two usages of these terms, in turn, leads to a further distinction between two different senses in which we can talk about the 'opaqueness' of our own …
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Generics in Use
… generic sentences, we can also take various propositional attitudes, including of belief, towards them. In Chapter 5, I consider what functional role genericity plays in thought and speech. I argue that because generic beliefs are non-specific, they are also evidentially undemanding: they …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… on privileged and peculiar self-knowledge of the propositional attitudes. Each answer meets with objections. In Chapter Four I develop a Social Agentialist account of the explanatory indispensability of privileged and peculiar self-knowledge. I argue that such knowledge enables at least three …
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A belief analysis of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War
… more apt to be characterised as cases of mere propositional acceptance. That is, of course, if the given supposed beliefs were genuine propositional attitudes rather than pretended beliefs or mere public display. The originality of this thesis emanates from the epistemological approach I have …
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Labels and Tags: A New Look at Naming
What meaning does a name have in a sentence? How do we escape the inevitable difficulties that arise in delineating an individual's meaning through one's speech? The need arises for a distinction between proper names on the basis of the kinds of objects to which they refer. This distinction can …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… necessarily involves the ascription of propositional attitudes. While there may be some mindreading phenomena that necessarily involve linguistic thought, there is no good reason to think that creatures without language could not engage in a robust folk psychology. Of course, whether …