DE RE BELIEF

[摘要] Chapter 1 presents two inadequate theories of belief. Chapter 2 examines three inadequate theories of de re belief. In Chapter 3, I distinguish belief from the other attitudes in terms of the functional role of belief states, and I distinguish among individual beliefs in terms of their mode of presentation and what they represent. A de re belief is defined as a belief about objects the agent has experienced and has a sufficient amount of information about. Chapter 4 defends the Quinean analysis of de re belief sentences in terms of a three-place belief predicate. Chapter 5 presents a more general statement of the logical form of de re belief sentences than either Quine;;s or Loar;;s statement, and it presents the truth-conditions for de re belief sentences.

[发布机构] Rice University