propositionalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
Uncountable
noun
The view all intentionality is propositional; the belief that there can be no meaning without a proposition.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The usual way to defend propositionalism is to say that ascriptions of intentional states by intensional transitives can be analysed to reveal covert material which shows their true propositional attitude structure."
- "The basic tenet of propositionalism is that every mental intentional attitude, every thought, pro-attitude, belief, desire, perception, adoration, resentment, contemplation, etc. is a fundamentally proposition-involving attitude."
Etymology
From propositional + -ism.