In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus.<br><br>How is this possible? How can we think about things that do not exist, like unicorns and Pegasus? They are not there to be thoug
Thinking About Things
โ Scribed by Sainsbury, Mark
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 210
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction1: Intentionality and Intensionality2: "Something"3: A Display Theory of Attitude Attribution4: Nonspecificity5: Inference6: Relationality and RepresentationFlashbacks
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