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View submission: Why treat "desire" as a propositional attitude?
Huh. It sounds real interesting, but, to be honest, I almost can't make heads or tails of that. I now have to read the chapter!
Comment by [deleted] at 10/02/2017 at 17:04 UTC
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These are two considerations motivating the propositional attudtude approach:
If we rightly insist that when we believe truly that things are so, what we believe is what is the case, then it seems to follow that when we believe falsely that things are so, then what we believe is not what is the case, there is not anything that is so – that is to say: we believe nothing.
If our belief is incorrect, then what we believe is not what is the case. But how can what we believe both be what is the case when our belief is true and yet not be what is the case when our belief is false, and yet be the very same thing? For we surely believe the very same thing, namely that things are so, no matter whether our belief is right or wrong! (‘The same thing’ is the rat one should now be able to smell.)