Sentence examples for attitude reporting from inspiring English sources

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Perry argued against Frege's solution to Frege's puzzle by considering indexicals in propositional attitude reporting sentences.

In this discussion, we will examine attempts to deal with a puzzle about propositional attitude reporting sentences that was first posed by Gottlob Frege in his 1892.

But these conditions stem not from the information semantically encoded by a given utterance of a propositional attitude reporting sentence but instead from the information pragmatically implicated by those utterances.

(Saul, in her 1998, 1999a/b, also doubts that the sort of information described above concerning belief states or how an agent believes what she believes could be pragmatically implicate, or indeed communicated in any way, by typical utterances of propositional attitude reporting sentences. She does not, however, offer Braun's positive account).

We typically make such reports by uttering propositional attitude reporting sentences like 'Jill believes that Jack broke his crown', employing a propositional attitude verb like 'believes, 'hopes', and 'knows', followed by a clause that includes a full sentence expressing a proposition (a that-clause).

So, even if one can give an adequate account of when two utterances samesay one another without presupposing a common meaning or proposition they are both related to, one's work in defending the paratactic account as an account of belief sentences (and other propositional attitude reporting sentences) is not complete.

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Brin is facing the discovery with the confidence of a self-made billionaire, but tempered by the down-to-earth attitude reported by colleagues throughout his career.

The paratactic account, both solely as an account of indirect speech reports and as an account of propositional attitude reports more generally, has been subject to a wide range of criticisms.

Some respondents provided spontaneous comments about HCPs' attitudes, reporting that they 'look down on me'behaveave badly towards me', and 'present an unwilling attitude'.

Because sexual behavior is influenced by personal and societal attitudes, reporting and sharing of information is often subject to reporting bias, which arises when people do not reveal private information, even for health reasons.

All seven that assessed attitudes reported some degree of change toward an increase in attitudes favourable to risk reduction.

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