On believing, saying and expressing

Thomas Ryckman

pp. 191-200

in: Synthese 79 (2), 1989.

Abstract

Examines the connections among believing, saying, and expressing in situations where the sentence used is a declarative sentence containing at least one proper name. Proposes a new way of understanding these connections. Develops an argument for the thesis that, although we typically believe the singular propositions expressed by our uses of name sentences, we rarely use such sentences because we believe those propositions.