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Direct Belief : An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief / Jonathan Berg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ; 13Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614510901
  • 9781614510826
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100
LOC classification:
  • P99.4.P72
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it) -- Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity -- Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and “inner speech” -- References -- Index
Summary: Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it) -- Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity -- Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and “inner speech” -- References -- Index

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Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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