According to truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. This book develops a more radical mentalist semantics by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Classical semantics analyzes an abstract sentence or utterance such as "Grass is green"; in attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as "Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green".
- ISBN10 1280864648
- ISBN13 9781280864643
- Publish Date 1 January 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer
- Pages 279
- Language English