Propositions

Edited by Thomas William Strickland Hodgson (Shanxi University, Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego)
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Summary It seems that it's possible for Mary to utter the sentence ‘Whales are fish’ and thereby say that whales are fish. John might believe what Mary said, or not. If John and Mary both believe it then there is something that they both believe. That thing is false, however. That Mary can use that sentence to say that might be partly explained by the fact that ‘Whales are fish’ means that whales are fish. (The fact that Mary can use that sentence to convey that John doesn’t know much about Whales by adopting a certain tone of voice might also be partly explained by that meaning fact.) The preceding claims are not self-evident, but they are attractive. Taken at face value they suggest that there is a class of objects which can be believed, said, take truth values and serve as meanings. The standard name for such things is ‘propositions’. There are several debates at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics about the nature of these entities and the roles they should play in our philosophical theories.
Key works There have been several important books on the nature of propositions in recent years: Stalnaker 1984; Schiffer 2003; King 2007Soames 2010; Moltmann 2012King et al 2014; Hanks 2015; Merricks 2015; Soames 2015. There is also a handbook containing survey articles: Tillman & Murray 2022.
Introductions Hanks 2009Stevens 2008; King 2017
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  1. Varieties of Alienness.Matti Eklund - 2024 - In Yannic Kappes, Asya Passinsky, Julio De Rizzo & Benjamin Schnieder, Facets of Reality — Contemporary Debates. Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.
    In my book Alien Structure: Language and Reality (OUP, 2024) I discuss the possibility of what I call alien languages and alien metaphysical structure. An alien language is a language with alien semantic structure. It is semantically different from familiar languages, in a broadly structural way, and through having kinds of resources not found in familiar languages. The world has alien metaphysical structure if its structure is best represented by an alien language. Here I illustrate what is at issue, discussing (...)
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  2. Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition (Luciano Bazzocchi (ed.).Ludwig Wittgenstein - 2021 - London: Anthem Press. Translated by D. F. Pears & B. F. McGuinness.
    This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful interpretation of decimal numbers (which alone, according to Wittgenstein, "give perspicuity and clarity to the book") shows that the Tractatus stems from a home-page containing seven cardinal propositions and develops level by level, by perfectly coherent reading units. Indeed, "the Tractatus must be read in accordance (...)
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  3. Acquaintance, knowledge, and luck.Michael Markunas - 2024 - Synthese 204 (6):1-21.
    Is knowledge a uniform kind? If not, what relation do the different kinds of knowledge bear to one another? Is there a central notion of knowledge which other kinds of knowledge must be understood in terms of? In this paper, I use Aristotle’s theory of homonyms as a framework to make progress on these questions. I argue that knowledge is not a uniform kind but rather a core-dependent homonym. To demonstrate this, I focus on knowledge by acquaintance. I argue that (...)
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  4. Frege, Sentence-questions, Questions, and Thoughts.Nathan William Davies - 2024 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 101 (2):160-188.
    Dummett, Hanks, Künne, and Bobzien have all stated or implied that when Frege wrote ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’, Frege believed that the sense of a sentence-question was not a thought. I present the passage of ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’ which is relevant to the evaluation of that proposition. I then present and evaluate an argument which I assume to be the best argument based on that passage for that proposition. I argue that the argument is likely to be unsound. I (...)
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  5. (2 other versions)Fact, fiction, and forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1965 - Indianapolis,: Bobbs-Merrill.
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  6. (1 other version)Absoluteness of intuitionistic logic.Daniel Maurice Raphaël Leivant - 1975 - Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum.
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  7. Contingentism and fragile worlds.Christopher James Masterman - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    Propositional contingentism is the thesis that there might have been propositions which might have not have been something. Serious actualism is the thesis that it is impossible for a property to be exemplified without there being something which exemplifies it. Both are popular. Likewise, the dominant view in the metaphysics of modality is that metaphysical possibility and necessity can be understood – in some sense – in terms of possible worlds, i.e. total ways the world could have been. Here, I (...)
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  8. Some Ways the Ways the World Could Have Been Can’t Be.Christopher James Masterman - 2024 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 53 (4):997-1025.
    Let serious propositional contingentism (SPC) be the package of views which consists in (i) the thesis that propositions expressed by sentences featuring terms depend, for their existence, on the existence of the referents of those terms, (ii) serious actualism—the view that it is impossible for an object to exemplify a property and not exist—and (iii) contingentism—the view that it is at least possible that some thing might not have been something. SPC is popular and compelling. But what should we say (...)
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  9. Truth, topicality, and transparency: one-component versus two-component semantics.Peter Hawke, Levin Hornischer & Franz Berto - 2024 - Linguistics and Philosophy 47 (3):481-503.
    When do two sentences say the same thing, that is, express the same content? We defend two-component (2C) semantics: the view that propositional contents comprise (at least) two irreducibly distinct constituents: (1) truth-conditions and (2) subject-matter. We contrast 2C with one-component (1C) semantics, focusing on the view that subject-matter is reducible to truth-conditions. We identify exponents of this view and argue in favor of 2C. An appendix proposes a general formal template for propositional 2C semantics.
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  10. (4 other versions)Calculus of Qualia 7: Equations vs. Qualations, Assertions with non-referential terms, Proofs, Logic.P. Merriam & M. A. Z. Habeeb - manuscript
    General Introduction: In [1] a Calculus of Qualia (CQ) was proposed. The key idea is that, for example, blackness is radically different than █. The former term, “blackness” refers to or is about a quale, whereas the latter term, “█” instantiates a quale in the reader’s mind and is non-referential; it does not even refer to itself. The meaning and behavior of these terms is radically different. All of philosophy, from Plato through Descartes through Chalmers, including hieroglyphics and emojis, used (...)
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  11. A Dual Act Analysis of Slurs.Elisabeth Camp - 2018 - In David Sosa, Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 29-59.
    Slurs are incendiary terms so much that many ordinary speakers and theorists deny that sentences containing them can ever be true, and utterances where they occur embedded within normally "quarantining" contexts, like conditionals and indirect reports, are still typically offensive. At the same time, however, many speakers and theorists also find it obvious that sentences containing slurs can be true; and there are clear cases where embedding does inoculate a speaker from the slur's offensiveness. I argue that four standard accounts (...)
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  12. Propositionen sprachpragmatisch betrachtet.Glüsing Leon - 2023 - In Hoffmann Martin & Martin Tobias, Ebenen des Verstehens Wolfgang Künne im Gespräch. Paderborn: Brill mentis. pp. 223–234.
    The article critically examines Wolfgang Künne's theory of propositions through a speech-pragmatic lens, drawing on John R. Searle's concept of constitutive rules. Three approaches to understanding propositions are presented, arguing that propositions are not just abstract entities but are significantly shaped by the language and social structures within which they operate. The preferred approach posits that propositions are linguistic constructs, emphasizing the interdependence between language and the nature of propositions.
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  13. Abstract Objects.David Liggins - 2024 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Philosophers often debate the existence of such things as numbers and propositions, and say that if these objects exist, they are abstract. But what does it mean to call something 'abstract'? And do we have good reason to believe in the existence of abstract objects? This Element addresses those questions, putting newcomers to these debates in a position to understand what they concern and what are the most influential considerations at work in this area of metaphysics. It also provides advice (...)
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  14. Biased Questions and Hamblin Semantics.Anton Zimmerling - 2023 - Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 6 (2):92-135.
    This paper takes a stand on Hamblin semantics and its relation to the semantics-to-pragmatics interface. Biased questions, where the speaker finds one of the options more likely and expects the confirmation that p is true, raise a concern about the limits of Hamblin semantics. I argue that biased questions have modified Hamblin semantics, while unbiased questions have unconstrained Hamblin semantics. The optional bias feature explains compositionally. It is triggered by likelihood presuppositions ranging Hamblin sets and highlighting the preferred alternative(s). Biased (...)
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  15. Kant, Propositions, and Non-Fundamental Metaphysics.Damian Melamedoff-Vosters - 2022 - In Chris Tillman & Adam Murray, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions. Routledge. pp. 144-158.
    In this chapter, my aim is to present an account of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism that centers his view of propositions as mental acts. As I intend to show, Kant’s strategy in the Critique of Pure Reason is only intelligible under the assumption that the fundamental bearers of truth are mental entities.
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  16. С.Коева, Е. Ю. Иванова, Й. Тишева, А. Циммерлинг (ред.). Онтология на ситуациите за състояние – лингвистично моделиране. Съпоставително изследване за български и руски. Cофия: "Марин Дринов", 2022. [Svetla Koeva, Elena Yu. Ivanova, Yovka Tisheva, Anton Zimmerling (Eds.). Ontology of Stative Situations – Linguistic Modeling. A Contrastive Bulgarian-Russian Study. Sofia: Marin Drinov. 2022].Svetla Koeva, Elena Ivanova, Yovka Tisheva & Anton Zimmerling - 2022 - Sofia: Профессор "Марин Дринов" [Professor "Marin Drinov"].
    The collective monograph "Ontology of Stative Situations - Linguistic Modeling. A Contrastive Bulgarian-Russian Study" includes research carried out within the project of the same name "Ontology of stative situations – linguistic modeling. A contrastive Bulgarian-Russian study", supported by the "Scientific Research" Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science in Bulgaria (№ КП-06-РУСИЯ / 23) and from the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (No. 20-512-18005).
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  17. Von der Bildung der Begriffsinhalte.Karl Dürr - 1916 - Zürich,: Rascher.
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  18. About Haecceity: An Essay in Ontology.Matthew Davidson - 2024 - London: Routledge.
    This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity—that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. -/- The book begins by exploring different conceptions of haecceity throughout history. The discussion of various figures across history is important for getting clear on the nature of haecceity and its role in individuation. The next part of the book examines different views about the nature of haecceity. The author defends a view on which haecceities have (...)
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  19. Identiska och syntetiska satser.Paul Cavallin - 1894 - Lund,: Distribuent: Gleerupska universitets-bokhandeln.
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  20. The role of logical form in propositions about existence.Stanley Bonneau Reid - 1931 - Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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  21. (1 other version)Expression, truth, and reality : some variations on themes from Wright.Dorit Bar-On - 2012 - In Annalisa Coliva, Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Expressivism, broadly construed, is the view that the function of utterances in a given area of discourse is to give expression to our sentiments or other (non-cognitive) mental states or attitudes, rather than report or describe some range of facts. This view naturally seems an attractive option wherever it is suspected that there may not be a domain of facts for the given discourse to be describing. Familiarly, to avoid commitment to ethical facts, the ethical expressivist suggests that ethical utterances (...)
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  22. An experimental study of the mental processes involved in judgment...Borislav P. Stevanović - 1927 - Cambridge [Eng.]: The University press.
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  23. Untersuchungen zur Theorie des unendlichen Urteils.Jakob Gordin - 1929 - Berlin,: Akademie Verlag.
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  24. Urteil und beurteilung.Walter Blumenfeld - 1931 - Leipzig,: Akademische verlagsgesellschaft m. b. h..
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  25. Über die funktion der copula.Albert Grote - 1935 - Leipzig,: F. Meiner.
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  26. Der Urteilssinn.Jürgen Rausch - 1943 - Berlin,: Junker und Dünnhaupt.
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  27. Du jugement comme acte signifiant.Dan Bădărău - 1944 - Lausanne,: F. Roth & cie.
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  28. Suzhdenie i ego vidy.P. V. Tavanet︠s︡ - 1953 - Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR.
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  29. L'éducation du jugement.Marcel Boll - 1954 - Paris,: Presses universitaires de France.
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  30. Voprosy teorii suzhdenii︠a︡.P. V. Tavanet︠s︡ - 1955 - Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR.
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  31. Voprosy klassifikat︠s︡ii suzhdeniĭ.Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Drozdov - 1956 - [Leningrad]:
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  33. Elementy sądu a istnienie.Leon Gumański - 1961 - Toruń,:
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  34. Sinn und Möglichkeiten wissenschaftlicher Prognosse.Erhard Denninger - 1965 - [Mainz,: Universität]. Edited by Roellecke, Gerd, [From Old Catalog] & Otto Saame.
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  36. Voprosy teorii suzhdenii︠a︡.David Mikhaĭlovich Keburii︠a︡ - 1968 - Tbilisi,: "Met︠s︡niereba,".
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  38. Az ítélet dialektikus logikai elmélete.László Erdei - 1971 - Budapest,: Akadémiai Kiadó.
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  39. Grundzüge der Aussagenlogik.Lothar Czayka - 1971 - Berlin,: Verl. Dokumentation.
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  42. Orit︠s︡atelʹnye vyskazyvanii︠a︡.Iosif Nusimovich Brodskiĭ - 1973
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  43. Hyŏnsanghakchŏk pʻandan non yŏnʼgu.Kir-U. Yi - 1974
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  44. Ejercicios de lógica: lógica proposicional.Colacilli de Muro & C. J. - 1974 - Buenos Aires: Paidós. Edited by Afra Alegría Hermosa & Ana Rita Jachimovicz.
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  45. Predvidenie kak chelovecheskaia sposobnost'.Alla Gennad'evna Nikitina - 1975 - Moskva: Mysl.
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  46. (1 other version)Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment.Justus Buchler - 1951 - New York,: Columbia University Press.
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  47. Nature and Judgment.Justus Buchler - 1955 - New York,: Columbia University Press.
    Attempts to discover fundamental traits in the process of experiencing and producing in man. Includes chapters on judgment, query, experience, and meaning.
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  48. Logik der Prognose: semant. Grundlegung technolog. u. sozialwissenschaftl. Vorhersagen.Hans Georg Knapp - 1978 - München: Alber.
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  49. Glauben, Wissen und Wahrscheinlichkeit: Systeme der epistemischen Logik.Wolfgang Lenzen - 1980 - New York: Springer.
    Eine Einfiihrung in die epistemische Logik wurde schon vor unge fahr zwei Jahrzehnten durch Jaakko Hintikka geschrieben, und auf sein "Knowledge and Belief" nimmt das vorliegende Buch nicht nur durch den Titel "Glauben, Wissen und Wahrscheinlichkeit" Bezug. Es diirfte deshalb wohl angebracht sein, wenn der Autor eines Buches, das so deutlich die Nachfolgeschaft eines anderen beansprucht, sich dafiir rechtfertigt und erklart, worin sich sein Werk von dem des Vorgangers unterscheidet. Ein wichtiger Punkt, in dem die zweite iiber die erste Einleitung (...)
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  50. Das Urteil: die dialektisch-logische Theorie des Urteils.László Erdei - 1981 - Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
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