Thing Talk Moonlighting

Author: Crimmins, Mark

Source: Philosophical Studies, Volume 108, Numbers 1-2, March 2002 , pp. 83-98(16)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

It is controversial whether the truth conditions of attitude sentences are opaque. It is not, or shouldn't be controversial, however, that conditions of apt or unexceptionable usage are opaque. A framework for expressing such uncontroversial claims of opacity is developed, and within this framework it is argued that opacity resides at a “locutionary” level — that it is a matter of expressed content (which might not be truth-conditional). The same claim is made for a related pattern in attitude talk which is labeled the “moonlighting” use of thing-talk.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015712231136

Affiliations: 1: Email: crimmins@stanford.edu

Publication date: 2002-03-01