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propositionalism

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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

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
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