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propositional attitude

propositional attitude noun: a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition, such as believing that, desiring that, or hoping that.

Noun

propositional attitude (plural propositional attitudes)

  1. A relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition, such as believing that, desiring that, or hoping that.
    • Of course, the problem applies not only to belief, but also to a host of other mental phenomena which may be called propositional attitudes: doubting, considering, desiring, etc. In all these cases it seems natural to express the phenomenon in the form "A doubts p," "A desires p," etc., which makes...1922, Bertrand Russell, “Introduction”, in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Forms of propositional attitude

pluralpropositional attitudes

Questions about propositional attitude

What does propositional attitude mean?
Propositional attitude means a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition, such as believing that, desiring that, or hoping that.
What part of speech is propositional attitude?
Propositional attitude is a noun.
What is the plural of propositional attitude?
The plural of propositional attitude is propositional attitudes.

Words near propositional attitude in the dictionary

  1. proposition nation
  2. proposition nations
  3. proposition player
  4. proposition players
  5. propositional
  6. propositional attitude
  7. propositional attitudes
  8. propositional calculi
  9. propositional calculus
  10. propositional constant
  11. propositional constants

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