Belief in propositions has had a long and distinguished history in analytic philosophy. Three of the founding fathers of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore, believed in propositions. Many philosophers since then have shared this belief; and the …
"In The Nature and Structure of Content, Jeffrey C. King formulates a detailed account of the metaphysical nature of propositions. In addition to explaining what it is that binds together the constituents of structured propositions and imposes structure on them, King deals with …
Stephen Schiffer presents an innovative account of meaning and belief and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to provide accounts of linguistic meani…