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View submission: Why treat "desire" as a propositional attitude?
Huh. Thanks. Never heard of it. I will have to check it out.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/02/2017 at 15:22 UTC
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Here's a quote: "The confusion is generated by the tacit assumption that what is believed is some thing. It is correct, and unproblematic, that when one believes truly that things are so and when one believes falsely that things are so, one has the very same belief. It is also true that when one believes truly that things are so, then what one believes is what is the case. But what one believes is not the same as what is the case, any more than when one does what one is told to do, one does the same as one is told to do. Of course, when one believes truly that things are so, the question ‘What do you believe?’ and the question ‘What is the case?’ both receive the same answer. It is a remarkable fact that we can be so misled by ‘whats’ and ‘sames’, and by wrongly taking ‘what’ to be a relative, rather than an interrogative, pronoun here."