Assertion and conditionals / Anthony Appiah
- Author
- Appiah, Anthony
- Additional Titles
- Assertion & Conditionals
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- Summary
- This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.
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- ISBN
- 9780511895975 (ebook)
9780521304115 (hardback)
9780521071291 (paperback) - Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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