Sense Experiences and Their Contents: A Defense of the Propositional Account

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 33 (2):215-30 (1990)
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A number of philosophers are committed to the view that sense experiences, in so far as they have contents, have propositional contents, but this is more often tacitly accepted than argued for in the literature. This paper explains the propositional account and presents a basic case in support of it in a simple and straightforward way which does not involve commitment to any specific philosophical theory of perception

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