Propositionalism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions. uncountable
- 2 The view all intentionality is propositional; the belief that there can be no meaning without a proposition. uncountable
"The usual way to defend propositionalism is to say that ascriptions of intentional states by intensional transitives can be analysed to reveal covert material which shows their true propositional attitude structure."
Example
More examples"The usual way to defend propositionalism is to say that ascriptions of intentional states by intensional transitives can be analysed to reveal covert material which shows their true propositional attitude structure."
Etymology
From propositional + -ism.
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