A Page Summary of propositional Attitudes

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A Page Summary of propositional Attitudes
Propositional attitudes is simply defined as the connection between a person and a proposition or relation between a person and a proposition. It also concern the cognitive relations people bears to proposition.  For example desires and intentions. It is often taken to be the fundamental units of thought; and their contents are true or false. Therefore, a person can have different propositional attitudes towards the same proposition. For instance, ‘Wisdom believes that his glass cup is broken’ and ‘Wisdom fears that his cup is dirty.’ Linguistically, employing a propositional attitude verb like believes, hopes, and knows, is followed by a clause that includes a full sentence expressing a proposition (a that-clause).
 One of the theories among propositional attitudes is Frege’s theory, which is built on puzzle. For him, propositional attitudes must indicate the way that individuals are represented by the agent, that is, the agent’s mode of presentation of the referent. Also, an occurrence of a referential expression within the scope of a propositional attitude verb refers to a way of representing an object rather than to the expression of ordinary referent. Frege presents his puzzle as one about the relationship between the cognitive value of expressions and their ordinary reference, in dialoguing that the two must be distinct, Frege pointed out two problems, which are: a. the problem of the apparent difference in truth-value of corresponding belief attributions. b. the problem of difference in the cognitive significance of sentences composed in the same way of elements with the same reference. If distinct belief attributions indicate differences in cognitive value of the sentences in their that-clause, then these two problems are really a single problem, presumably with a single solution.
Though, Frege’s solution to his puzzle was criticised on several fronts because it was accused of violating semantic linguistics.




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