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Telling What She Thinks

Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports
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Published/Copyright: 2015
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Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies

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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 focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim 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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Tomoo Ueda, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

    VII
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    List of Figures

    XI
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    List of Tables

    XII
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    Acknowledgments

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    List of abbreviations

    XV
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  • Part I: Introduction
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    1. The central problems

    3
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  • Part II: State of research
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    2. Structured propositionalism and its shared assumptions

    13
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    3. Indirectness of speech and role of deixis

    28
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    4. Metaphysical status of propositional attitudes

    50
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  • Part III: Communicational approach
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    5. Communicative framework and discursive opacity

    69
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    6. Opacity as a feature of the frame

    78
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    7. Adverbial account of the frame

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  • Part IV: The VarCA analysis
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    8. The VarCA Analysis

    109
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    9. Consequences of the opaque VarCA

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  • Part V: Concluding remarks
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    10. Conclusion

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    List of sentences

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    Bibliography

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    Source of linguistic data

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    Index

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eBook published on:
September 25, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9783110429596
Hardcover published on:
September 11, 2015
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110438802
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Front matter:
16
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170
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429596
eBook ISBN: 9783110429596
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110438802
Keywords for this book
Frege; Puzzle; Belief; Epistemic Modal Logic
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