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Why believe in contentless beliefs?

Daniel Hutto

pp. 55-74

Abstract

This chapter motivates the idea that the most basic kind of believing is a contentless attitude. It gives reasons for thinking that the most basic sort of belief — the sort that both we and other animals adopt toward situations — does not represent those situations in truth-evaluable ways. I call such attitudes pure intentional attitudes. They are not propositional attitudes, which I take to be linguistically mediated intentional attitudes.

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Nottelmann Nikolaj (2013) New essays on belief: constitution, content and structure. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 55-74

DOI: 10.1057/9781137026521_4

Full citation:

Hutto Daniel (2013) „Why believe in contentless beliefs?“, In: N. Nottelmann (ed.), New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 55–74.