Sentence examples for pro attitudes from inspiring English sources

These varied states of mind have all been grouped together under the heading of 'pro attitudes', but whether the pro attitudes are fundamentally one mental state or many is disputed.

Thus, unless this challenge can somehow be met, a proponent of the thesis must restrict the thesis to pro attitudes that are neither truth- nor belief-entailing, a restriction that might itself prove unwelcome, since it excludes a number of favorable responses to what is good (such as promoting what is good, or taking pleasure in what is good) to which proponents of the thesis have often appealed.

Thus A. C. Ewing (1948: 168) writes: "if we analyse good as 'fitting object of a pro attitude', it will be easy enough to analyse bad as 'fitting object of an anti attitude', this term covering dislike, disapproval, avoidance, etc".

Political power does not require any kind of pro attitude toward the agent on the part of the subject, nor does it require that the state is actually successful at securing public order.

For a further discussion on the links between pro-social attitudes, pro-social consumer behavior, perceived consumer effectiveness, and trust in SRI, see Nilsson (2008).

As such language was persuasive, its objective was to establish pro-attitudes and con-attitudes in mind of listener or reader.

Suppose instead, as moral noncognitivism maintains, that moral judgments express desires or other conative states what philosophers sometimes call "pro-attitudes".

Rather they give expression to desires, sentiments, plans, and other pro-attitudes, the sorts of goal-directed noncognitive state that move people to action.

On a crude Humean view, the answer might be that the value is something projected onto the world through my pro-attitudes, like desire.

It is not simply that we suppose that states of having certain pro-attitudes and of having corresponding means-end beliefs are among the causes of our actions.

Sensibility theory does not seem to improve upon generic FA theories, with their vague references to pro-attitudes, in this respect.