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For, I grant, some value of necessary; and that only applies to the contentful put-downs.

[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010

It determines what meaningful utterances (contentful mental states) are, not how anything should be or what anyone should do

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

Hume begins both the Treatise and the Enquiry with an account of impressions and ideas because he thinks that all contentful philosophical questions can be asked and answered in those terms.

David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

These sentences accordingly fail to express contentful thoughts.

Dr. Nishad 2009

A creature that we cannot interpret as capable of meaningful speech will thus also be a creature that we cannot interpret as capable of possessing contentful attitudes.

Donald Davidson Malpas, Jeff 2009

Even if guidance normativism would ultimately not be able to sustain a substantive difference between following a content determining rule and mere accordance with it, one might still hold on to the claim that there are contentful intentional states only if the rules of rationality are in force for them.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

On this radical brain-in-a-vat hypothesis, I am asked, then, to countenance the (alleged) possibility that I am not thinking contentful thoughts via meaningful sentences with reference and truth conditions.

Dr. Nishad 2009

One may wonder what he means to deny about these domains that is not also applicable to the rest of our seemingly contentful judgments (Rosen 1998).

Boys in White Suits 2009

Van Fraassen argues that since the latter belief is logically weaker and yet as empirically contentful as the former belief it is natural for an empiricist to go only as far as belief in empirical adequacy.

Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

I've seen how you treat contentful comments and it ain't pretty.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008