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29 - Mental Files

from Part V - Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Affiliation:
University of Lodz, Poland
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A rational subject, S, may take different (and possibly conflicting) attitudes toward the judgment that a given individual is F – for example, she may reject it as false or accept it as true – depending on how that individual is presented. She may think that Emile Ajar is a genius, while thinking that Romain Gary is a has-been (hence, not, or no longer, a genius). Since Emile Ajar is Romain Gary, our subject S ascribes to the same individual the property of being and not being a genius. Is that irrational of her? No, of course not, for she does not know that Ajar is Gary.

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Print publication year: 2021

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