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words in the that-clause (âthat bad music corruptsâ) to characterize one of Platoâs belief states. A representation in words is used to characterize, to give the content of, a mental representation (much as with analysis and hearing). Platoâs belief makes things out to be a certain way, and the thatclause says how it makes things out to be. The that-clause characterizes Platoâs belief qua representation: it renders how the belief represents things as being.2 Belief attribution has received considerable philosophical attention in recent years (see essays in Woodï¬eld 1982). Another example of giving the content is indirect quotation: âPlato said that bad music corrupts.â Plato did not, of course, use the words âbad music corruptsâ since he didnât speak English; but he did say something we can characterize and attribute to him using those words (and in this way we characterize some utterance of his).3 More generally: whenever we give the meaning of one expression via another, or say what a picture represents,4 or draw a picture to convey what we are thinking or feeling, that is the use of one representation to give the content of another. It is worth noting that the use of one representation
Journal of Music Theory – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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