Roger Kimball, speaking in favor of the proposition, leaned toward quasi-British bombast, characterizing anti-Americanism as "a rank garden" for which Hollywood "merely supplies a layer of what you might call fructified manure".
In an effort to explain all this, Chisholm started with a single primitive epistemic concept — this is the concept of greater reasonability, which relates the holding of one propositional attitude toward some proposition with the holding some other propositional attitude toward some proposition.
It means that the following is a necessarily true generalization: if you bear any factive propositional attitude toward the proposition P, then you know that P. Other factive attitudes include perceiving and remembering.
SAN FRANCISCO — Supporters of same-sex marriage in California wasted little time on Tuesday turning away from their courtroom defeat on Proposition 8, and toward a potential campaign to overturn the measure.
Now, as the legal battle over that ban, Proposition 8, heads toward the Supreme Court, gay and straight Mormons are making increasingly vocal calls for church leaders to reconsider their stance on gay marriage and welcome openly gay congregants back into the church.
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.
This idea is also expressed with phrases such as 'desires are attitudes toward propositions' or 'desires have propositional content'.
Belief, a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth.
Most of the proceeds from Proposition 51 would go toward upgrading the state's K-12 buildings, with another $2 billion set aside for community colleges.
It's a truism that the American people are ideologically conservative but operationally liberal, meaning that they're opposed to big government as a general proposition but favorably disposed toward many specific programs.
