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- Title
How to Express Implicit Attitudes.
- Authors
Unnsteinsson, Elmar
- Abstract
I argue that what speakers mean or express can be determined by their implicit or unconscious states, rather than explicit or conscious states. Further, on this basis, I show that the sincerity conditions for utterances can also be fixed by implicit states. This is a surprising result, which goes against common assumptions about speech acts and sincerity. Roughly, I argue that the result is implied by two plausible and independent theories of the metaphysics of speaker meaning and, further, that this is a robust basis on which to make an inference, with a fair degree of confidence, about the relationship between expression and implicit attitudes.
- Subjects
IMPLICIT attitudes; EXPRESSIONISM (Philosophy); CONSCIOUSNESS; SELF-deception; SPEECH acts (Linguistics)
- Publication
Philosophical Quarterly, 2024, Vol 74, Issue 1, p251
- ISSN
0031-8094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pq/pqad016