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| That clause: partial sentence, expresses e.g. a belief (propositional attitude). This content is intensional, i.e. it is not objective. For some authors, the partial sentence "that it is raining" is the name of the sentence "It is raining"._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Stephen Schiffer on That-Clauses - Dictionary of Arguments
I 7 That-clause/relational theory/Schiffer: tradition: a that-clause is a singular term. - E.g. That snow is white has a reference that can be true/false. Paratactic analysis/Davidson: "that", demonstrative, refers to an occurrence. SchifferVs: this leads to the relation theory - (it presupposes objects of belief). >Relation theory. Since there is an infinite number of relational predicates, these cannot appear as basic terms. >Compositionality. I 9 That-clause/Schiffer: a that-clause is no singular term but indirect and partial characterization of what Elmer believes. >Paul and Elmer) I 274 de dicto/Schiffer: reduction to de dicto is only possible if a way of givenness without reference to objects of which they are about, is possible. >Substitutional quantification, >Way of givenness. I 129 That-clause/belief/most authors/Schiffer: the that-clause does not refer to a belief. - That means to the neuronal state-token which is the belief. - But to entities with truth value and other content-determining characteristics. Problem: then we need (unlike propositions) an independent presentation of the contents of the neural state-Tokens. I 211 That-clause/Schiffer: Thesis: a that-clause does not refer. It is no refering expression. Problem: how should one explain: E.g. Paul and Elmar believe that ... so there is an attribute that they have in common. Nominalism: for nominalism, which denies any classes of properties, the language must not a have compositional semantics. >Compositionality._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schi I St. Schiffer Remnants of Meaning Cambridge 1987 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19