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Direct Belief : An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief

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Format Hardback
ISBN-10 1614510903
ISBN-13 9781614510901
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 16th, 2012
Print length 167 Pages
Weight 377 grams
KSh 22,850.00
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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.

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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