Success Semantics and Partial Belief

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weng Hong Tang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Partial Belief

Partial Belief, Partial Intention

Mind ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 117 (465) ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Holton
Keyword(s):  
Partial Belief

Vagueness-Related Partial Belief and the Constitution of Borderline Cases

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-302
Author(s):  
Crispin Wright
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Attitude ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Borderline Case ◽  
Borderline Cases ◽  
Partial Belief ◽  
Book Symposium

This chapter, specially written for a Philosophy and Phenomenological Research book symposium on the Stephen Schiffer’s The Things We Mean, is focused on Schiffer’s proposal there concerning the most central and important question about vagueness: namely, what, specifically, something’s being a borderline case of a vague expression consists in. Schiffer argues for a new kind of approach, according to which vagueness is constitutively a psychological phenomenon, grounded in a supposedly distinctive propositional attitude taken by practitioners of vague discourse: vagueness-related partial belief (VPB), contrasting in ways Schiffer details with standard partial belief (SPB). Two principal problems are raised for this proposal. First, on Schiffer’s account, VPB looks to be characteristic of a wider range of kinds of indeterminacy besides the targeted soritical vagueness. Second, there is an awkward dilemma arising over whether or why a thinker could not, as a matter of psychological contingency, adopt a VPB towards a precise proposition.

Vagueness and Partial Belief

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Schiffer
Keyword(s):  
Partial Belief

scholarly journals Partial belief as a solution to the logical problem of holding simultaneous, contrary beliefs in self-deception research

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
Keith Gibbins
Keyword(s):  
Logical Problem ◽  
Partial Belief

A major worry in self-deception research has been the implication that people can hold a belief that something is true and false at the same time: a logical as well as a psychological impossibility. However, if beliefs are held with imperfect confidence, voluntary self-deception in the sense of seeking evidence to reject an unpleasant belief becomes entirely plausible and demonstrably real.

Partial Belief and Borderline Cases

Noûs ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. 289-301
Author(s):  
Jorge Rodriguez Marqueze
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Cases ◽  
Partial Belief
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