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Telling What She Thinks: Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports

By Tomoo Ueda

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
3110438801, 9783110438802
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1861712 bytes)
Series
Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies 33
Pages
xvi+170\187
Time added
2018-06-09 04:23:14
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Description

Frege’s puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focusis on semantic values of proper names. The keyaim is to extend Crimmins’s basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege’s puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.

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