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Berg, Jonathan. 2012. Direct Belief. An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief. (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 13). De Gruyter. x+157 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
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Stickling the Direct Belief Theory, and using Grice's conversational implicature, this study presents and defends a pragmatic explanation of substitution flop in belief ascriptions, addressing language's context-sensitivity and the semantics-pragmatics link.