On the Cognition of States of Affairs

The theory of speech acts put forward by Reinach in his “The A Priori Foundations of the Civil Law” rests on a systematic account of the ontological structures associated with various different sorts of language use. One of the most original features of Reinach’s account lies in his demonstration of how the ontological structure of, say, an action of promising or of commanding, may be modified in different ways, yielding different sorts of non-standard instances of the corresponding speech act varieties. The present paper is an attempt to apply this idea of standard and modified instances of ontological structures to the realm of judgement and cognition. It is hoped that it will also do something to justify the author’s belief that Reinach’s writings have a more than merely historical interest.

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