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Direct Belief An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief

:	Jonathan Berg
:	Direct Belief An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9781614510826
:	Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 124.20
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

:	167
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< >Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted 'Inner Speech' Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.

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< >Jonathan Berg, University of Haifa, Israel.

	Preface	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction	12
	Chapter 1: The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it)	18
	1. From language to thought	18
	2. Accommodating shifty intuitions	21
	3. The appeal to ambiguity	23
	3.1. Lexical ambiguity	23
	3.2. Syntactic ambiguity	28
	3.3. Multigrade status	32
	3.4. The persistence of shifty intuitions	35
	4. The indexical view	35
	4.1. Implicit modes of presentation	35
	4.2. Hidden-indexical semantics	38
	4.3. Articulated indexicality	47
	5. Semantic indeterminacy	51
	5.1. Incompleteness	51
	5.2. Similarity	53
	5.3. Hopelessness	57
	6. Direct belief	59
	7. Summary	60
	Chapter 2: The pragmatics of substitutivity	65
	1. Truth and appropriateness	65
	2. Conversational implicature	67
	3. Implicated normalcy	68
	4. Normalcy for belief ascriptions	71
	5. Variations on verbatim acceptability	74
	6. Identity beliefs	81
	7. Availability	86
	8. Semantic intuitions	93
	9. Iterability	102
	10. Other pragmatic accounts of substitution failure	106
	10.1. Soames and what is said	106
	10.2. Thau and what is implicated	110
	11. Summary	114
	Chapter 3: Conceptions, belief, and “inner speech”	119
	1. The medium view of conceptions	119
	2. The behavior problem	122
	2.1. The problem	122
	2.2. The Higher Order View of conceptions	124
	2.3. A solution to the problem	125
	3. Suspended belief	126
	4. The inner speech picture of thought	134
	5. Thinking in words	141
	5.1. Silent uttering	141
	5.2. Imagining	145
	6. Two paradigms of belief	148
	7. Summary	151
	References	154
	Index	164