- 01 Apr, 2021
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indirect quotation deviate
211 Prepositional attitudes with opacity. So their objects cannot be sets, which can be specified with merely coextensional function. 212-3 Indirect quotation as the objects? 214 Assumes likeness of meaning 216 Instead: have not objects; just take \believes that P’ as a predicate of Tom.
How far can indirect quotation deviate from the direct quotation? Can we do indirect quotation for animal belief? 218 an indirect quotation is no longer a report but an interpretation
218 Brentano on the medieval intentiones. 220 can never get away from the intentional attitude. [a good more recent example: defining aggression and violence in animal behavior: must admit intentions?] 221-2 Stimulus meaning does not need them, but they are needed once we bring in analytical hypothesis for terms. But Quine would rather ignore them as then we would need objects for propositional attitudes—even thought intentional talk must be used in ordinary life.
222-3 subjunctive conditionals or counterfactuals—used for disposition terms like ‘soluble’. 224 Paraphrase them away: x has a certain molecular structure and x dissolves. 225 But there are much wilder counterfactuals: think of some.
226 Let a conditional have a truth-value gap when the antecedent is false.
227 Science and theorizing use writing and eternal sentences free of context.
228 Get rid of causes and becauses and instead use logical inference. Still allow for indefinitely many unanalyzed general terms. Restricting categories of terms and their combinations is tempting but limits too much. 231 especially if the sentences of the theory are allowed as objects in the theory. Can reduce general terms to sets with a two place relation.