Dynamic Relationism About Belief

EasyChair Preprint 9408

Abstract

This essay presents a novel account of intentional identity, the phenomenon illustrated by Geach's 'Hob-Nob' sentence. 
On the account defended here, such sentences express dyadic belief facts that are not in general reducible to monadic belief facts.
We show how these non-reductive truth-conditions are predicted by a version of dynamic semantics which allows sentences to update certain kinds of accessibility relations.

Keyphrases: Relationism, attitude ascriptions, dynamic semantics, intentional identity, pronominal anaphora

@booklet{EasyChair:9408,
  author    = {Dilip Ninan},
  title     = {Dynamic Relationism About Belief},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 9408},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}