Belief states and narrow content

Mind and Language 8 (3):343-67 (1993)
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The first thesis is that beliefs play a role in explaining behavior. This is reasonably uncontroversial, though it has been controverted. Why did I raise my arm? Because I wanted to emphasize a point, and believed that I could do so by raising my arm. The belief that I could emphasize a point by raising my arm is central to the most natural explanation of my action

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10.1111/j.1468-0017.1993.tb00290.x

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Narrow mental content.Curtis Brown - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
How “Meaning” became “Narrow Content”.Paweł Grabarczyk - 2016 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 46 (1):155-171.

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