Direct Belief : : An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief / / Jonathan Berg.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (157 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it)
  • Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity
  • Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and “inner speech”
  • References
  • Index