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Author Boër, Steven E.

Title Thought-contents : on the ontology of belief and the semantics of belief attribution / Steven E. Boër
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 374 pages)
Series Philosophical studies series ; v. 104
Philosophical studies series ; v. 104.
Contents Preliminaries -- Terms of the Art -- Adequacy Conditions and Failed Theories -- Ontology -- Logical Forms and Mental Representations: The Lesson Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment -- Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Proto-Theory -- Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Full Theory -- Semantics -- Belief Reports and Compositional Semantics -- Meeting the Semantical Adequacy Conditions -- Objections and Replies -- Rear-Guard Action -- The Case for Object-Dependent Thoughts -- A Critique of Rival Accounts of Singular Thoughts
Summary Provides a formal ontology of senses and the belief-relation that grounds the distinction between de dicto, de re, and de se beliefs as well as the opacity of belief reports
Analysis filosofie
philosophy
ontologies
taal
language
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Belief and doubt.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Belief and doubt
Ontologie (filosofie)
Gedachte-experimenten.
Zintuigen.
Meningen.
Semantiek.
Form Electronic book
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