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propositional attitudes

propositional attitudes is the plural of propositional attitude.

Meaning of propositional attitude

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

Questions about propositional attitudes

What is propositional attitudes the plural of?
Propositional attitudes is the plural of propositional attitude.

Words near propositional attitudes in the dictionary

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

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