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propositionalism

propositionalism noun: the belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.

Noun

propositionalism (uncountable)

  1. The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
  2. The view all intentionality is propositional; the belief that there can be no meaning without a proposition.
    • The usual way to defend propositionalism is to say that ascriptions of intentional states by intensional transitives can be analysed to reveal covert material which shows their true propositional attitude structure.2013, Tim Crane, The Objects of Thought, page 108
    • The basic tenet of propositionalism is that every mental intentional attitude, every thought, pro-attitude, belief, desire, perception, adoration, resentment, contemplation, etc. is a fundamentally proposition-involving attitude.2018, Alex Grzankowski, Michelle Montague, Non-Propositional Intentionality, page 3

Origin of propositionalism

From propositional + -ism.

Questions about propositionalism

What does propositionalism mean?
Propositionalism means the belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
What part of speech is propositionalism?
Propositionalism is a noun.

Words near propositionalism in the dictionary

  1. propositional functions
  2. propositional logic
  3. propositional logics
  4. propositional variable
  5. propositional variables
  6. propositionalism
  7. propositionalist
  8. propositionalists
  9. propositionalities
  10. propositionality
  11. propositionalization

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