Stalnaker calls such matrices propositional concepts, since they reflect the subject's current imperfect conception of the meaning of the sentence.[23] This particular matrix reflects the fact that O'Leary's current epistemic state is compatible with the identity sentence expressing either a necessary truth or a necessary falsehood, depending on empirical facts about the actual context of use.
Typically, they replace the conception of propositional encoding with one according to which symbols convey a modality-specific feature.
In addition, the precise conception of propositional contents may have to be varied with the account of intuition.
In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.
We have already seen two major arguments, perhaps historically the most important ones, for LOTH: First, we have noted that if LOTH is true then all the essential features of the common sense conception of propositional attitudes will be explicated in a naturalistic framework which is likely to be co-opted by scientific cognitive psychology, thus vindicating folk psychology.
The authors used a series of propositional statements and concept maps to define the content boundaries of the test, and they identified alternative conceptions through review of the literature, observation during lessons, and examination of student work.
On this view, propositions and propositional functions have an order.
After showing how the act-based conception of propositions resolves the problem of explaining propositional representationality that plagues the standard conception, I conclude by spelling out how we can think about the basic machinery of compositional semantics from an act-based perspective.
We have tried to explore some connections one might forge between the view one takes on the nature of propositional attitudes and one's conception of the de re/de dicto distinction.
Countering the idea of a 'post-truth' age, Zuidervaart situates propositional truth within a more comprehensive conception of truth extending beyond the academy to other domains of public life.
