Sentence examples for belief reports from inspiring English sources

He elaborates and defends this proposal by providing a careful assessment of pragmatic and semantic contributions to the claims expressed in belief reports.

Topics covered in this wide-ranging work include the analysis of belief reports and talk about fiction, world shifting, opacity and substitutivity, quotation, the relation between direct and indirect discourse, context shifting, semantic pretense, and deference in language and thought.

Epistemic contextualism is defended from several objections which allege that the way that "knows" actually behaves within some metalinguistic claims, belief reports, and speech reports is problematically different from what contextualism would predict, and from the objection that contextualism rules certain claims to be compatible with one another though they seem inconsistent.

Part 5 Belief reports: the truth about Giorgione semantics reporting beliefs - semantics providing representations - pragmatics - normal notions and ideas, notions linked to action and perception, self-attribution and indexical belief, de dicto reports, notional specificity, de re reports - are there any?

Along the way, the superiority of contextualism over subject-sensitive invariantism is defended, and, in the final section, important objections to contextualism based on how "knows" operates in comparative judgments of content, metalinguistic claims, belief reports, and speech reports are answered.

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SHE was brave beyond belief, reporting a gruesome war and a creeping dictatorship with a sharp pen and steel nerves.

But this feature is arguably not shared by slurs a slur in a belief report is generally taken to express the negative attitude of the speaker and not the person whose beliefs are being reported.

Kent Bach (1997) holds that a belief report is true iff the subject believes a certain thing that requires the truth of the proposition contributed by the that-clause.

On Stalnaker's account, to determine just which proposition is ascribed by a particular belief report, we must answer three questions.

9. Someone like Davidson (1967) might claim that Boris believes the English sentence token (i.e., the one in the belief report) in virtue of the fact that it says-the-same as Russian sentence tokens that he believes.