Lexicon of Arguments

 

Cresswell I 112
Lycan/Belief/Conviction/Cresswell: Lycan's solution is quite different, Lycan thesis the sentence to which the belief is related, is not an entity of public language - rather, it is a kind of brain configuration.
Cf. >Relation theory, >Belief objects, >Objects of thought, >Brain state.
Brain State/Meaning/Lycan: thesis is not something that has a meaning, but
I 113
a brain state is something that is a meaning.
>Meaning, cf. >Propositions, >Intensions, >Language of thought.
Brain State/Meaning/Cresswell: thesis: there is no way to understand a mental event, like e.g. that broccoli is disgusting, differently than based on any specification of its parts.
>Understanding, >Analysis.
I 114
Solution/Stalnaker/Cresswell: would probably say that mental events should be analyzed in terms of the actions that they have as a result. Then they would again be sets of possible worlds.
>Possible worlds, >Actions.
(s) Conclusion: this is about whether a formalization is possible that does not exclude that someone does not know what he thinks. If such a formalization is possible, then the theory from which it follows cannot be right.)
>Beliefs, >Self-knowledge, >Knowledge.