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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lajos Ludovic Brons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2019-04-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/58103