Tristan Grøtvedt Haze, “Propositions Represent Inherently Without Explaining Intentionality,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 81, no. 4 (2025): 1163–72, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2025_81_4_1163.
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Tristan Grøtvedt Haze |
| Abstract | Propositions are abstract mind-independent entities expressed by sentences and believed by believers, they inherently have representational properties, and their having these is basic to them rather than being the sort of thing we should seek to explain. Here I defend this set of views from a line of objection, recently exemplified by Peter Hanks and Scott Soames, which complains that it affords no good explanation of intentionality in terms of propositions. I argue that the complaint is misplaced; propositions have already earned their keep without affording any such explanation. In fact, on the kind of view of the epistemology of the ontology of propositions that I favour, they earned their keep so long ago that we should not think of them as theoretical posits any more than we think of our friends or our clothes as such. |
| Date | 2025 |
| Library Catalog | 401; 401.43; 401.45; 160; 401.41 |
| License | © 2026 by Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Volume | 81 |
| Publisher | Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia |
| Section | Philosophy of Language: New Frontiers in Meaning and Use |
| Pages | 1163-1172 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2025_81_4_1163 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Journal Abbr | RPF |
| ISSN | 0870-5283 ; 2183-461X |
| Date Added | 1/31/2026, 7:42:04 PM |
| Modified | 1/31/2026, 9:22:26 PM |
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