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Direct Belief
An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief
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Jonathan Berg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2012
About this book
Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.
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Jonathan Berg, University of Haifa, Israel.
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eBook published on:
April 26, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9781614510826
Hardcover published on:
April 16, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9781614510901
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10
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157
Audience(s) for this book
Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Pramatics and Analytic Philosophy.
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