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Single Idea 18020

[from 'Category Mistakes' by Ofra Magidor, in 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes ]

Full Idea

Three views of the semantics of propositional attitudes: they are relations between agents and propositions ('propositional' view); relations between individuals and meanings (Fregean); or relations of individuals and sentences/utterances ('sentential').

Gist of Idea

Propositional attitudes relate agents to either propositions, or meanings, or sentence/utterances

Source

Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 3.4)

Book Reference

Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.63


A Reaction

I am a propositionalist on this one. Meanings are too vague, and sentences are too linguistic.