Comment by NausicaaSantiago on 11/02/2017 at 06:48 UTC

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View submission: Why treat "desire" as a propositional attitude?

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But then I don't see what's so special about desire.

Maybe your question is: Why are intentional attitudes in general treated as propositional attitudes?, or Can intentional attitudes have non propositional content?

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Comment by drinka40tonight at 11/02/2017 at 06:54 UTC

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In a sense, yeah. The same non-propositional analysis could probably be given for other attitudes. I guess I focused on desire because there's a lot of work that invokes it (as opposed to work on fear), without, at least to me, justifying the thought that it just is a propositional attitude.