300 PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES

According to the thesis of indeterminacy, a person has attitudes towards sentences: propositional attitudes do not underlie or explain those attitudes in question. Thus, if you regard a speaker's psychological attitude as (potentially) distinct from the sentences he/she uses you are in trouble: when interpreting a speaker's sentences you have to take into account how the speaker reasons and why he/she is reasoning that way (the pragmatics of the rhetorical situation). There are no linguistically, etc. , neutral propositions behind sentences.

-> Beliefs 64, 65, 70, 72, 73; Conversational matrix 113, 114, 115, 116; Indeterminacy 176, 177; Language 195; Lebenswelt 217, 218; Proceeding 295; Understanding 371, 372;

& A priori 27; Annotating 18; Intersubjectivity 188; Language 194; Language games 204; Learning 210, 215; Pragmatics 276, 278; Semantics 317, Stylistics331; Surface-structure 337; Translation 365;

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