Assigning Truth‐Conditions
Assigning Truth‐Conditions
This chapter shows that the new negation problem generalizes, and that biforcated attitude semantics does not, in general, assign complex descriptive sentences to mental states that are commitment-equivalent to beliefs in the corresponding complex descriptive contents, creating a problem for how to assign truth condition to complex descriptive sentences. Nevertheless, it is argued that given certain possibly defensible assumptions, every complex descriptive sentence will express a mental state that commits to the belief in the corresponding complex descriptive content, and hence that truth-conditions can be assigned to complex descriptive sentences in this way. This is proven in an appendix to the chapter.
Keywords: new negation problem, descriptive contents, complex descriptive sentences
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