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18020 | Propositional attitudes relate agents to either propositions, or meanings, or sentence/utterances [Magidor] |
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'). | |
From: Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 3.4) | |
A reaction: I am a propositionalist on this one. Meanings are too vague, and sentences are too linguistic. |
21542 | Do incorrect judgements have non-existent, or mental, or external objects? [Russell] |
Full Idea: Correct judgements have a transcendent object; but with regard to incorrect judgements, it remains to examine whether 1) the object is immanent, 2) there is no object, or 3) the object is transcendent. | |
From: Bertrand Russell (Meinong on Complexes and Assumptions [1904], p.67) | |
A reaction: Why is it that only Russell seems to have taken this problem seriously? Its solution gives the clearest possible indicator of how the mind relates to the world. |