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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461456103321

Autore

Ueda Tomoo

Titolo

Telling what she thinks : semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports / / Tomoo Ueda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042959-4

3-11-042970-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Epistemische Studien, , 2198-1884 ; ; Band 33

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Propositional attitudes

Pragmatics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The central problems -- 2. Structured propositionalism and its shared assumptions -- 3. Indirectness of speech and role of deixis -- 4. Metaphysical status of propositional attitudes -- 5. Communicative framework and discursive opacity -- 6. Opacity as a feature of the frame -- 7. Adverbial account of the frame -- 8. The VarCA Analysis -- 9. Consequences of the opaque VarCA -- 10. Conclusion -- List of sentences -- Bibliography -- Source of linguistic data -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Frege’s puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim is to extend Crimmins’s basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege’s puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic



innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.