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- Title
Normativity in Reasoning.
- Authors
Broome, John
- Abstract
Reasoning is a process through which premise-attitudes give rise to a conclusion-attitude. When you reason actively you operate on the propositions that are the contents of your premise-attitudes, following a rule, to derive a new proposition that is the content of your conclusion-attitude. It may seem that, when you follow a rule, you must, at least implicitly, have the normative belief that you ought to comply with the rule, which guides you to comply. But I argue that to follow a rule is to manifest a particular sort of disposition, which can be interpreted as an intention. An intention is itself a guiding disposition. It can guide you to comply with a rule, and no normative belief is required.
- Subjects
REASONING; PROPOSITION (Logic); ATTITUDE (Psychology); DISPOSITION (Philosophy); INTENTION (Logic)
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2014, Vol 95, Issue 4, p622
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12050