Sentence examples for propositional attitude from inspiring English sources
noun
A relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition, such as believing that, desiring that, or hoping that.
Here, an agent or a group of agents bears the propositional attitude knowing towards some proposition.
(More on this in section 5. See also the entries on belief, propositional attitude reports, and structured propositions).
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.
Developing theories which give such accounts in a way that fits well with intuitive data concerning propositional attitude ascriptions would enhance our reasons to accept propositions.
Propositional attitude reports concern the cognitive relations people bear to propositions.
A propositional attitude is a psychological relation between a person and a proposition.
Russell (1911) required that a propositional attitude holder be acquainted with each of the components of the proposition in question.
Now, that's a belief, but it's not any particular propositional attitude.
(See propositional attitude reports).
(For further discussion, see propositional attitude reports).
See the entry on propositional attitude reports.
