Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
@article{Churchland1993EliminativeMA, title={Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes}, author={Paul M. Churchland}, journal={The Journal of Philosophy}, year={1993}, 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…
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