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The Measure of Mind$
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Robert J. Matthews

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780199211258

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211258.001.0001

The Basic Measurement‐Theoretic Account

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(p. 150 ) 6 The Basic Measurement‐Theoretic Account
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The Measure of Mind
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Robert J. Matthews (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211258.003.0006

This chapter develops a characterization of the empirical structure of the attitudes, using the conceptual resources developed in the previous chapter. It begins by developing a characterization of the ‘representing structure’ that is presumed to embed an image of the empirical structure of the attitudes. It then turns to the more difficult task of developing a characterization of this empirical structure itself. This is accomplished by bringing to bear both empirical considerations about the everyday use of attitude attributions and formal considerations about the sorts of mapping relations between representing and represented structures that would be necessary to support such use.

Keywords:   propositional attitudes, Received View, empirical structure, representing structure

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