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Between Thought and Expression: On Making Sense of Oneself
By (author) Eric Marcus
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What does it mean to say what you think? In Between Thought and Expression, Eric Marcus argues that the relationship between a thought and its expression in language is more intimate than philosophers have supposed. We do not first form a belief, intention, or desire, and then find words to report it; rather, the ability to put a thought into words is part of what makes it the thought it is, and a rational creature's thought is no more determinate than her ability to articulate it. Understanding what someone is saying is therefore not a matter of inferring the speaker’s state of mind from the words she utters, but of grasping the sense she is making with them. Variants of Moore’s Paradox^—conjunctions of independently meaningful statements that somehow fail to make sense^—are shown to arise across a striking range of domains: intentional action, desire, moral exhortation, aesthetic judgment, and validity. Tracking these Moore-style phenomena, Marcus argues that our attitudes in each domain are partly constituted by the thinker's capacity to avow them^—a capacity whose exercises, properly understood, are themselves applications of the standard of appropriateness to which the attitude is answerable. Through seven examples of a single phenomenon^—independently meaningful statements that somehow fail to make sense in combination^—Marcus develops this thesis across belief, action, desire, moral advice, aesthetic judgment, and logical inference, offering a unified picture of the rational mind.
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc
Published date | 3 Feb 2027
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-0-1978-7107-2
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BISAC | philosophy / mind & body
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