Patterns, noise, and Beliefs
In “Real Patterns” Daniel Dennett developed an argument about the reality of beliefs on the basis of an analogy with patterns and noise. Here I develop Dennett’s analogy into an argument for descriptivism, the view that belief reports do no specify belief contents but merely describe what someone be...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2019-04-01
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Series: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/58103 |