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Published: 01 April 2018
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Properties and Propositions: The Metaphysics of Higher-Order Logic
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 382–386.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of propositions and propositional content, but chapters 10, 11, and 14 are likewise highly recommended reading on themetaphysics of properties, states of affairs, and the nature of truth as approached within a higher-order framework. In the remainder of my review, however, I shall focus on Trueman’s presentation...
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A Theory of Structured Propositions
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... might have looked plausible if one thought that you could inductively extend any assignment of truth values to the atomic sentences to a valuation, as one does in the propositional calculus, or first-order logic with substitutional quantifiers. But this is simply not possible in propositionally...
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Propositions: Ontology and Logic
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (2): 235–239.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to appreciate in Stalnaker’s considered view, and one needn’t have a lot of sympathy with Quine to appreciate it. As always, Stalnaker’s formal system is careful and rigorous, and the book provides an attractive theory of information using an ontology of propositions, properties, and relations. I especially...
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Russell on Substitutivity and the Abandonment of Propositions
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 151–205.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., neither the puzzle itself nor Russell's solution to it have been well understood. The principle Russell seeks to defend concerns not the substitution of expressions in a sentence but rather the substitution of propositional constituents in a Russellian proposition. This article further argues...
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Designating Propositions
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 341–371.
Published: 01 July 2002
... : 29 -46. ____. 2002 . Intensional Transitive Verbs and Abstract Clausal Complementation. Linguistics Inquiry (forthcoming). King, Jeffrey C. 1994 . Can Propositions Be Naturalistically Acceptable? In Midwest Studies in Philosophy , vol. 11 , edited by French, Uehling, and Wettstein, 53...
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Propositional Content
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Indrek Reiland References Pautz Adam Forthcoming . “ Propositions and Properties .” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . Reiland Indrek 2013 . “ Propositional Attitudes and Mental Acts .” Thought 1 : 239 – 45 . Reiland Indrek n.d . “ Predication...
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Epistemic Teleology and the Separateness of Propositions
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 337–393.
Published: 01 July 2013
... to believe?” “What is it rational for me to believe?” “What am I justified in believing?”). And the question can take broader or narrower scope, depending on whether it is applied to a specific proposition (“Should I believe that there is a God?”) or to one's cognitive life as a whole (“How should I go about...
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Hopes, Fears, and Other Grammatical Scarecrows
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 63–105.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Jacob M. Nebel The standard view of believes and other propositional attitude verbs is that such verbs express relations between agents and propositions. A sentence of the form “ S believes that p ” is true just in case S stands in the belief-relation to the proposition that p ; this proposition...
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Representing Knowledge
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Peter van Elswyk A speaker's use of a declarative sentence in a context has two effects: it expresses a proposition and represents the speaker as knowing that proposition. This article is about how to explain the second effect. The standard explanation is act-based. A speaker is represented...
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Ought , Agents, and Actions
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2011
... view that 'ought' always expresses this relation—adherents of the naive view are happy to allow that 'ought' also has an evaluative sense, on which it means, roughly, that were things ideal, some proposition would be the case. What is important to the naive view is that there is also a deliberative...
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Belief and Indeterminacy
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 1–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Michael Caie An attractive approach to the semantic paradoxes holds that cases of semantic pathology give rise to indeterminacy. What attitude should a rational agent have toward a proposition that it takes to be indeterminate in this sense? Orthodoxy holds that rationality requires that an agent...
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Full Belief and Loose Speech
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Sarah Moss This paper defends an account of full belief, including an account of its relationship to credence. Along the way, I address several familiar and difficult questions about belief. Does fully believing a proposition require having maximal confidence in it? Are rational beliefs closed...
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Truth and Freedom
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Trenton Merricks Suppose that time t is just a few moments from now. And suppose that the proposition that Jones sits at t was true a thousand years ago. Does the thousand-years-ago truth of that proposition imply that Jones's upcoming sitting at t will not be free? This article argues that it does...
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The Nature of Awareness Growth
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 1. Refinement of an algebra of propositions. ...
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Bare Quantifiers
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 247–283.
Published: 01 April 2011
... in natural languages and in standard artificial languages. For those of us who think sentences with different logical forms express different propositions, it would mean that no proposition expressed in a typical formal language is expressible in any natural language. The article begins by clarifying...
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Regularity and Hyperreal Credences
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2014
... mathematical structure of a probability function does. The second mistake is that the hyperreals make too many distinctions. They have a much more complex structure than credences in ordinary propositions can have, so they make distinctions that don't exist among credences. While they might be useful...
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Know-How and Gradability
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Carlotta Pavese Orthodoxy has it that knowledge is absolute—that is, it cannot come in degrees (absolutism about propositional knowledge). On the other hand, there seems to be strong evidence for the gradability of know-how. Ascriptions of know-how are gradable, as when we say that one knows...
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The Attitudes We Can Have
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 591–642.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Trenton 2009 . “ Propositional Attitudes? ” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 : 207 – 32 . Moltmann Friederike 2003 . “ Propositional Attitudes without Propositions .” Synthese 135 , no. 1 : 77 – 118 . Montague Michelle 2007 . “ Against Propositionalism...
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