Lexicon of Arguments

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I (b) 16
Propositional Attitude/Davidson: Thesis: ascribing propositional attitudes is analgous to measuring - weight itself is not an object.
I (b) 36
Analogy: just as different measurement systems can indicate the same temperature (Celsius/Fahrenheit), various attributions can capture the same thought content - (SearleVs). Cf. >Measurements, >Thoughts.
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Frank I 645f
Mental states/Proposition/Self-Attribution/External Attribution/Davidson: we must start with sentences or statements instead of propositions or meanings - otherwise, different types are indicated by different sources - instead: relationships between actors and statements - no different knowledge and no different criteria.
Solution: if anyone knows that I keep a set for right, he knows what I think - it would be circular to explain the fundamental asymmetry by an asymmetry of security. -> Interpretation/Davidson.


Donald Davidson (1984a): First Person Authority, in: Dialectica38 (1984),
101-111

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