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PRONUNCIATION OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Propositional attitude is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Propositional attitude

A propositional attitude is a mental state held by an agent toward a proposition. Propositional attitudes are often assumed to be the fundamental units of thought and their contents, being propositions, are true or false. An agent can have different propositional attitudes toward the same proposition. Linguistically, propositional attitudes are denoted by a verb governing an embedded "that" clause, for example, 'Sally believed that she had won'. Propositional attitudes have directions of fit: some are meant to reflect the world, others to influence it.

Definition of propositional attitude in the English dictionary

The definition of propositional attitude in the dictionary is a relation between a person and a proposition, such as belief, desire, intention, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

proportionment
proportions
proposable
proposal
proposal form
propose
proposed
proposer
proposita
propositae
propositi
proposition
propositional
propositional calculus
propositional function
propositionally
propositus
propound
propounder
propoxyphene

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

altitude
amplitude
aptitude
attitude
certitude
exactitude
fortitude
gratitude
habitude
inaptitude
ineptitude
latitude
longitude
magnitude
multitude
negritude
order of magnitude
servitude
show-me attitude
solitude
the multitude

Synonyms and antonyms of propositional attitude in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «propositional attitude» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

Find out the translation of propositional attitude to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of propositional attitude from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «propositional attitude» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

命题态度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

actitud proposicional
570 millions of speakers

English

propositional attitude
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मक रवैया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

موقف اقتراحي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

высказываний отношение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atitude proposicional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রস্তাবিত মনোভাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attitude propositionnelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sikap proposisi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

propositionale Einstellung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

命題態度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

명 제적 태도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sikap propositional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thái độ mệnh đề
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்மொழிவு மனப்பான்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवृत्तीची वृत्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Önerme tavrı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

atteggiamento proposizionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postawa zdań
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

висловлювань ставлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atitudine propozițională
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προτασιακή στάση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

proposisionele houding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sats attityd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

propositional holdning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of propositional attitude

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE»

The term «propositional attitude» is used very little and occupies the 173.115 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about propositional attitude

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE»

Discover the use of propositional attitude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to propositional attitude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude
This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicating function words to the expression of propositional attitude in the broad sense.
Gisle Andersen, Thorstein Fretheim, 2000
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index
It is clear that we make heavy use of propositional attitude ascriptions in explaining and interpreting the actions of ourselves and others. But should we think that in producing such ascriptions, we attempt to speak the truth - that is should we ...
Edward Craig, 1998
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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, ...
(325) It's certain that Hugh will be defeated (326) It's possible that Perry will lose the holder of the propositional attitude must be the speaker and therefore the experiencer is contextually redundant in such sentences.30 Many languages do not ...
Timothy Shopen, 2007
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The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and their ...
Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, it misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing.
Robert J. Matthews, 2007
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Bartlett, Culture and Cognition
Russell here advanced the concept of propositional attitude. The paradigm propositional attitude is the mental state of 'belief. Beliefs can be represented in language (or other symbols) by expressions of the form 'Person believes that ...
Akiko Saito, 2000
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What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological ...
2 Philosophy and Emotion — The Poverty of Conceptual Analysis 2.1 The Propositional Attitude School In its thirty-year history the propositional attitude school has produced many variants. This section describes the main thrust of the program ...
Paul E. Griffiths, 2008
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Propositional Attitudes: An Essay on Thoughts and How We ...
This book makes a stimulating contribution to the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Mark Richard, 1990
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Handbook of Philosophical Logic
Russell's treatment of the puzzle of the failure of substitutivity in propositional- attitude contexts is complicated by the fact that on Russell's theory, a propositional-attitude attribution such as 'Jones believes that Hesperus appears in the evening' ...
Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, 2003
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A Companion to Donald Davidson
principles.51 The pointI am underscoring is that Davidson must take this position about our understanding of propositional attitude predicates if he is to reject the possibility of reduction of propositional attitude predicates via Ramsification.
Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig, 2013
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Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and ...
and: Redeployment Claim (linguistic-version) The sense of a word occurring in contexts not involving propositional-attitude constructions is the same sense which is redeployed when the word occurs within the scope of propositional- attitude ...
Fabio Paglieri, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term propositional attitude is used in the context of the following news items.
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Schwitzgebel: Social media are avenues for teaching philosophy
This includes not only subjects well represented in journals, such as the structure of propositional attitudes and the nature of moral facts, but also how one ought ... «Online Athens, Jul 15»
2
Philosophy via Facebook? Why not?
This includes not only subjects well represented in journals, such as the structure of propositional attitudes and the nature of moral facts, but also how one ought ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
Christian Terrorists and the Innocence of Islam
I doubt that Reza Aslan is denying the very existence of what are called “propositional attitudes” (such as belief) here (which is what eliminative materialists ... «American Thinker, Nov 14»
4
Harvard University Press, 2013
From this we can expect that Crane's answer to the question Is Perception a Propositional Attitude? (217-234) will be negative. The reader learns again about ... «Metapsychology, Nov 14»
5
"Actually" Is the Most Futile, Overused Word on the Internet
For a 2000 paper titled “Actually and other markers of an apparent discrepancy between propositional attitudes of conversational partners,” linguists Sara Smith ... «The New Republic, Mar 14»
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Thinking about the mind: an anti-linguistic turn
So, again, it is tempting to think of mental states as representing propositions: as propositional attitudes. And, unsurprisingly, this is the standard way of thinking ... «OUPblog, Feb 14»
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Computer consciousness and ethics
... with internal states that operate very much like our perceptual states and propositional attitudes (our intentions, desires, and beliefs) This thing, let us assume, ... «Practical Ethics, Jan 14»
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Review by David Fajardo-Chica
The core of the Standard Folk Psychology (SFP), as she calls it, is as follows: i) propositional attitudes are the cause of intentional behavior, ii) folk psychology is ... «Metapsychology, Apr 13»
9
Graham Oppy
My dissertation was on semantics for propositional attitude ascriptions (philosophy of language). Some of my early publications were in the areas of philosophy ... «The Conversation AU, May 12»
10
The Sacred and the Humane
... then, make explicit the definition of religion at the root of my unrest: Religion is a system of myth and ritual; it is a communal system of propositional attitudes ... «New York Times, Jul 11»

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