Direct Belief
Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice''s theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to de...
Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice''s theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to de...
