propositionalism

noun

The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.

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Meanings

nounpropositionalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablelifestyleThe belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
  2. uncountablehuman sciencesThe view all intentionality is propositional; the belief that there can be no meaning without a proposition.

    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.

    2013, Tim Crane, The Objects of Thought, page 108
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    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.

    2018, Alex Grzankowski, Michelle Montague, Non-Propositional Intentionality, page 3

Origin

From propositional + -ism.

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