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Meaning of propositionalism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
    uncountable
  2. The view all intentionality is propositional; the belief that there can be no meaning without a proposition.
    uncountable

Examples

“The usual way to defend propositionalism is to say that ascriptions of intentional states by intensional transitives can be analysed to reveal covert material which shows their true propositional attitude structure.”
“The basic tenet of propositionalism is that every mental intentional attitude, every thought, pro-attitude, belief, desire, perception, adoration, resentment, contemplation, etc. is a fundamentally proposition-involving attitude.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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