Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
@article{Churchland1981EliminativeMA,
title={Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes},
author={Paul M. Churchland},
journal={The Journal of Philosophy},
year={1981},
volume={78},
pages={255-270}
}Staying within an objectual interpretation of the quantifiers, perhaps the simplest way to make systematic sense of expressions like ' x believes that P ' and closed sentences formed therefrom is just to construe whatever occurs in :he nested positior. held by 'p', 'g', etc. as there having the function of a singular term. Accordingly, the standard connectives, as they occur between terms in that nested position, must be construed as there functioning as operators that form cornpound singular… Expand
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