Propositional Attitudes
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چکیده
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 it does not give much clue about what meanings are.
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