In general, when a subject s is rationally required to have a propositional attitude a towards a proposition p, this is demanded by the coherence with s's other attitudes towards other propositions or the same proposition, whether or not these attitudes are justified.
Why shouldn't every world in a proposition potentially count towards its overall distance from the actual world?
Hence, Stanley says, "If the hermeneutic fictionalist is correct, then x can bear the propositional attitude of pretense toward a proposition, without it being in principle accessible to x that x bears the propositional attitude of pretense towards that proposition.
When we say this, we attribute to our subject (Hamlet) an attitude (desire) towards a proposition (that Claudius drink from the poisoned cup).
There sees to be widespread agreement among analytic philosophers that belief is (roughly) a dispositional affirmative attitude towards a proposition (or state of affairs).
When we say something like: "Macbeth believes that there is a dagger before him," we attribute to the subject (Macbeth) an attitude (belief) towards a proposition (that there is a dagger before him).
Likewise, when we say something like: "Juliet imagines that Romeo is standing beside her," we again attribute to our subject (Juliet) an attitude (imagination) towards a proposition (that Romeo is standing beside her).
Perhaps the most prominent candidate here is acceptance conceived as a positive categorical attitude towards a proposition that is by definition voluntary and figures significantly in our deliberation, action, argumentation, and assertion.
The Blackphone makers are targeting the gap in the market left by the collapse of Blackberry's business, shifting from the original prosumer proposition towards a BYOD enterprise mobile security sales pitch.
This result represents a step towards confirming the integration of managerial work descriptions, a proposition also claimed by Mintzberg (1997 20100).
