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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Propositional Attitude Reports A person can be cognitively related to a proposition in many ways. These cognitive relations might be attributed in sentences like the following: Alicia believes that people walked on the Moon. Boris knows that people walked on ...

Forthcoming in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Holism, Mental and Semantic Ned Block Department of Philosophy New York University Abstract Mental (or semantic) holism is the doctrine that the identity of a belief content (or the meaning of a sentence that expresses it) is determined by its place in the web of beliefs or sentences comprising a whole theory or group of theories. It can ...

Forthcoming in The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy) Semantics, Conceptual Role Ned Block Department of Philosophy New York University Abstract According to Conceptual Role Semantics ( CRS ), the meaning of a representation is the role of that representation in the cognitive life of the agent, e.g. in perception, thought and decision-making. It is an extension of the well known use theory ...

A Puzzle about Belief Reports KENT BACH I'd like to present a puzzle about belief reports that's been nagging at me for several years. I've subjected many friends and audiences to various abortive attempts at solving it. Now it's time to get it off my chest and let others try their hand at it. 1 My puzzle is not to be confused with either Frege's or Kripke's. Frege's (1892) puzzle about ...

The Meanings of Logical Constants GILBERT HARMAN It seems to illuminate the meanings of logical constants to say how they contribute to the truth conditions of propositions containing them, as in the account of certain sentential connectives such as truth functions, the Frege-Tarski analysis of quantification, Kripke's semantics for modal operators in a quantified modal logic, and Davidson's ...

Philosophy of Language Kripkenstein: Rule and Indeterminacy Xin Sheen Liu Syracuse University ABSTRACT: Indeterminacy theories, such as Wittgenstein's and Kripke's indeterminacy principle on rules and language and Quine's indeterminacy of radical translation, raise some fundamental questions on our knowledge and understanding. In this paper we try to outline and interpret Wittgenstein's and ...

Compositionality Compositionality is a feature of language in virtue of which the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meanings of its constituent parts. For example, the meaning of the sentence 'John thought the dog fetched the stick' is a function of the meanings of the component phrases 'the dog fetched the stick' and 'John thought, ' whose meanings are in turn a function of their parts.

Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics GILBERT HARMAN Princeton University WHAT IS (NONSOLIPSISTIC) CONCEPTUAL ROLE SEMANTICS In this paper I will defend what I shall call `(nonsolipsistic) conceptual role semantics'. This approach involves the following four claims: (1) The meanings of linguistic expressions are determined by the contents of the concepts and thoughts they can be used to ...

Critical Thinking and the Realism/Anti-realism Debate Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Chulalongkorn University I Much has been discussed about the virtues of epistemological realism and anti-realism, and their roles in defining and teaching critical thinking. Donald Hatcher argues that teachers have an obligation to teach critical thinking, but only in such a way that realism is ...

Philosophy of Language Davidson and Indeterminacy of Meaning Maria Baghramian University College Dublin maria.baghramian@ucd.ie ABSTRACT: According to Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation there are no facts of matter which could determine the choice between two or more incompatible translation schemes which are in accordance with all behavioral evidence. Donald Davidson agrees with ...

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