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Assertion and belief

Philosophical Studies 17 (5):74 - 78 (1966)

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  1. A solution to Moore's paradox.Lennart Åqvist - 1964 - Philosophical Studies 15 (1-2):1 - 5.
    Moore's paradox pits our intuitions about semantic oddness against the concept of truth-functional consistency. Most solutions to the problem proceed by explaining away our intuitions. But "consistency" is a theory-laden concept, having different contours in different semantic theories. Truth-functional consistency is appropriate only if the semantic theory we are using identifies meaning with truth-conditions. I argue that such a framework is not appropriate when it comes to analyzing epistemic modality. I show that a theory which accounts for a wide variety (...)
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  • A Note on Saying and Disbelieving.Max Deutscher - 1965 - Analysis 25 (3):53 - 57.
    It is argued that 'p but I do not believe that p' seems close to a contradiction because if the speaker is correct in all that s/he says then what s/he says is false. Similarly,what is wrong with 'p, but I have no opinion whether p' is that, whether 'p' or 'not-p', if the speaker believes it, s/he cannot be completely correct. The argument assumes that 'I believe that' is not a mere parenthesis as in 'p, I believe', and that (...)
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