Abstract I argue that the principal roles standardly envisaged for abstract propositions can be discharged to the sentences themselves (and similarly for the meanings or senses of words). I discuss: (1) Cognitive Value: Hesperus-Phosphorus; (2) Indirect Sense and Propositional Attitudes; (3) the Paradox of Analysis; (4) the Picture Theory of the Tractatus; (5) Syntactical Diagrams and Meaning; (6) Quantifying-in. (7) Patterns of Use. I end with comparisons with related views of the territory. 

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Propositions as Made of Words

.............................................................................................................................. ii Acknowledgments............................................................................................................... v Vita ..................................................................................................................................... vi Chapter 1: Thought in Science, Philosophy, and Everyday Practice .................................. 1 Introducing the Issue ....................................................................................................... 1 Thought in Everyday Practice ......................................................................................... 8 The structure of interpretive practice ........................................................................... 8 The structure and norms of the everyday conception of thought ................................ 9 The justificatory standards of interpretive practice ................................................... 12 The purposes of interpretive practice ........................................................................ 18 Thought in Science ........................................................................................................ 20 Behaviorism and Cognitivism ................................................................................... 20 Classical Cognitivism and its Rivals ......................................................................... 21 Scientific Practices and Thought Attributions ........................................................... 24

Thought Without Language: an Interpretationist Approach to the Thinking Mind

Two arguments favoring propositionalist accounts of attitude sentences are being revisited: the Church-Langford translation argument and Thomason's argument against quotational theories of indirect discourse None of them proves to be decisive, thus leaving the option of searching for a developed quotational alternative Such an alternative is found in an interpreted logical form theory of attitude ascription The theory differentiates elegantly among different attitudes but it fails to account for logical dependencies among them It is argued, however, that the concept of logical consequence does not well apply to dependencies among belief sentences and that the requirement to account for logical relations among such sentences should be relaxed

Interpreted Logical Forms as Objects of the Attitudes

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Interpreted Logical Forms as Objects of the Attitudes