ASSERTION AND CONDITIONALS by Anthony Appiah ( 9780521071291 )

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ASSERTION AND CONDITIONALS

By:

Anthony Appiah

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0521071291

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

Pages:

280

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This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief.

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This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

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