Conceptualizing Some Verbs of Propositional Attitudes in English

The Rationality of Belief And Some Other Propositional Attitudes

In this paper, I explore the question of whether the expected consequences of holding a belief can affect the rationality of doing so. Special attention is given to various ways in which one might attempt to exert some measure of control over what one believes and the normative status of the beliefs that result from the successful execution of such projects. I argue that the lessons which emerg...

Propositional Attitudes? *

According to the standard lore on propositions, there are many propositional attitudes, including belief, fear, and desire. The standard lore is partly correct: belief is a propositional attitude. But, so this paper argues, fear and desire are never propositional attitudes, not even when the content of the relevant fear or desire can be fully expressed by using a that-clause. 1. What I Mean by ...

Propositional Attitudes

This immediately raises the question what it is exactly that can be the object of an attitude; what kind of thing is the meaning of a sentence? Attitude reports give us a nice context in which to study this question and thus have a central importance for the semantics of natural language. However, the study of propositional attitudes mainly helps us to see what meanings are not. Unfortunately i...

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Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes

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