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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Propositional attitude''' is the cognitive or emotional attitude towards a [[proposition]], which is expressed by a verb or adjective, like ''know, believe, hope, fear'', etc. Propositional attitude [[verb]]s create [[opaque context]]s. Indefinite [[noun phrase]]s in such a context are ambiguous between a ''de re'' and ''de dicto'' reading:<br /> <br /> (i) The farmer believes that a witch blighted his donkey<br /> <br /> The farmer either has a de re belief about a specific witch which he holds responsible for blighting his donkey or he has a de dicto belief that some unidentified witch did this.<br /> <br /> === Links ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Propositional+attitude&amp;lemmacode=451 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Semantics]]<br /> <br /> {{stub}}</div>

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