ID - 820672 TI - Assertion and conditionals PY - 1985 SN - 0521304113 0521071291 0511895976 9780511895975 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Logic KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Conditionals (Logic) KW - Truth KW - Belief and doubt KW - Psychology KW - Conditionnels (Logique) KW - Vérité KW - Croyance et doute KW - Psychologie KW - 800.1 KW - Conviction KW - Philosophy KW - Skepticism KW - Certainty KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Pragmatism KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Mental philosophy KW - Mind KW - Science, Mental KW - Human biology KW - Soul KW - Mental health KW - Conditional statements (Logic) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Doubt KW - Consciousness KW - Credulity KW - Emotions KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Religion KW - Will KW - Agnosticism KW - Rationalism KW - Taalfilosofie KW - Belief and doubt. KW - Psychology. KW - Truth. KW - 800.1 Taalfilosofie KW - Conditionals (Logic). KW - Vérité KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:820672 AB - This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses. ER -