Context and Content
Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought
Stalnaker, Robert C. Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Print publication date: 1999 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823707-5







doi:10.1093/0198237073.003.0011

Robert C. Stalnaker
Abstract: The two-dimensional modal framework deployed in Chs. and 6 is used to describe some puzzles about belief discussed in two papers by Brian Loar, and some theoretical ideas that he develops in response to those puzzles. I argue that Loar's notion of realization conditions, which he distinguishes from truth conditions, can be identified with my notion of a diagonal proposition. The main claim is that while the framework lends support to some of Loar's explanations of the examples, it does not yield a notion of narrow content.

Keywords: belief, diagonal proposition, Brian Loar, narrow content, realization conditions, truth conditions,

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Part I Representing Contexts
Part II Attributing Attitudes
Part III Externalism
Part IV Form and Content