naa a22 4500 510789358 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9456-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9456-z Capraru Mihnea Department of Philosophy, 541 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, 13244, Syracuse, NY, USA aut A New Source of Data About Singular Thought [Elektronische Daten] [Mihnea Capraru] Philosophers have justified extant theories of singular thought in at least three ways: they have invoked wide-ranging theories motivated by data from other philosophical areas, they have elicited direct intuitions about which thoughts are singular, and they have subjected propositional attitude reports to tests such as Russellian substitution and Quinean exportation. In these ways, however, we haven't yet been able to tell what it takes to have singular thoughts, nor have we been able to tell which of our thoughts they are. I propose, therefore, a methodological contribution, a new source of data about singular thought. We can tell whether a thought is singular if we ask what we can coherently deny at the same time at which we agree with the thought. When we agree with a thought that is general, we cannot coherently deny about the thought's subject a certain description, the one that occurs in the thought's subject position. To show how to use this new data source, I develop a linguistic method for testing whether a speaker expresses a singular or a general thought. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Singular thought nationallicence Psychosemantics nationallicence Methodology nationallicence Agreement nationallicence Disagreement nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/4(2013-12-01), 1159-1172 0048-3893 41:4<1159 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9456-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9456-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Capraru Mihnea Department of Philosophy, 541 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, 13244, Syracuse, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/4(2013-12-01), 1159-1172 0048-3893 41:4<1159 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer