NDLI: Why fuss about these quirks of the vernacular? Propositional attitude sentences in Prior’s nachlass

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Felappi, Giulia
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	In English, in order to speak about Arthur’s attitudes, we use sentences like “Arthur believes that natural language is messy”. For sentences of this kind we have a standard theory, according to which the ‘that’-clause ‘that natural language is messy’ denotes a proposition. As Prior showed for the first time, the standard theory appears to be at odds with some linguistic data. Geach and Prior both assumed that linguistic data are to be taken as reliable guides to a correct semantic account and I will start by raising some worries concerning their methodology. Because of these data, Prior and Geach suggested some non-standard accounts. I will then show that if we take linguistic data seriously, their non-standard accounts do not fare any better than the standard theory. My general conclusion will thus not only be that Prior’s and Geach’s methodology is disputable, but also that their conclusions do not seem to follow even if we grant the reliability of their methodology.
Starting Page	3521
Ending Page	3534
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	193
Issue Number	11
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-09-19
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Arthur Prior Peter Geach Propositional attitude sentences The standard theory Natural language Linguistic data Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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