Meaning and Intentionality

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  • 意味と志向性
  • イミ ト シコウセイ

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In discussing the problem whether or not that sort of mental discourse which involves terms like 'think', 'believe', is translatable into the language of purely behavioral description, both Wilfrid Sellars and R. M. Chisholm reject behavioristic reductionism and stress the need of metalinguistic discourse. Chisholm, however, asserts that semantical relations are to be analyzed in terms of the intentionality of thoughts. whereas Sellars emphasizes that the semantical statement "p' means p' can be analyzed without introducing the concept of intentionality or aboutness of thoughts, though Sellars accepts the classical view that a statement is the expression of a thought as an inner episode. In principle we can use semantical vocabulary before we learn mental talk. Semantical talk is the model of mental talk, and in this sense, thoughts are to be construed as inner speech; we can use theoretical statements about the mental as introspective reports after we have learned them as the statements of theoretical explanation. If we can posit thoughts as theoretical constructs, we can also identify them with the neuro-physiological processes in their descriptive or qualitative aspect.

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  • 哲學研究

    哲學研究 43 (5), 461-471, 1966-02-01

    THE KYOTO PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (The Kyoto Tetsugaku-Kai)

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