Propositional Attitudes in Modern Philosophy

Dialogue 41 (3):551-568 (2002)
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Philosophers of the modern period are often presented as having made an elementary error: that of confounding the attitude one adopts toward a proposition with its content. By examining the works of Locke and the Port-Royalians, I show that this accusation is ill-founded and that Locke, in particular, has the resources to construct a theory of propositional attitudes.

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10.1017/s0012217300005266

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An essay concerning human understanding.John Locke - 1689 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Pauline Phemister.
Tractatus logico-philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. C. M. Colombo & Bertrand Russell - 1990 - New York: Routledge. Edited by C. K. Ogden.
The philosophical writings of Descartes.René Descartes - 1984 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Tractatus logico-philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1922 - Filosoficky Casopis 52:336-341.

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