Frankish, Keith
(1998). Natural language and virtual belief.
In: Carruthers, Peter and Boucher, Jill eds.
Language and thought : Interdisciplinary themes.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 248–269.
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Abstract
This chapter outlines a new argument for the view that language has a cognitive role. I suggest that humans exhibit two distinct kinds of belief state, one passively formed, the other actively formed. I argue that actively formed beliefs (virtual beliefs, as I call them) can be identified with premising policies, and that forming them typically involves certain linguistic operations. I conclude that natural language has at least a limited cognitive role in the formation and manipulation of virtual beliefs.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
1998 Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: |
0-521-63758-9, 978-0-521-63758-9 |
| Keywords: |
cognitive conception |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Philosophy |
| Item ID: |
118 |
| Depositing User: |
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| Date Deposited: |
30 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
10 May 2011 15:10 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/118 |
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