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(2013) New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter motivates the idea that the most basic kind of believing is a contentless attitude. It gives reasons for thinking that the most basic sort of belief — the sort that both we and other animals adopt toward situations — does not represent those situations in truth-evaluable ways. I call such attitudes pure intentional attitudes. They are not propositional attitudes, which I take to be linguistically mediated intentional attitudes.
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Hutto, D. (2013)., Why believe in contentless beliefs?, in N. Nottelmann (ed.), New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 55-74.
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