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    Challenges→Either Pierre's doxastic position cannot be as described in §2.6 or London and Londres are different cities (or we must punt).

    Russellian accounts of propositional attitudes, as developed by Salmon and Soames, permit an agent to believe and disbelieve a single singular proposition under different guises without contradiction.

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    Russellian accounts(as the main framework being discussed)
    A theory about how beliefs work that was developed by philosopher Bertrand Russell; it says beliefs are direct relationships between a person's mind and the actual things or facts in the world, rather than relationships to descriptions or ideas about things.
    Salmon and Soames(as the philosophers whose argument is being described)
    Scott Salmon and Scott Soames are contemporary philosophers who study how language relates to meaning and thought; they're known for their work on how names function in sentences about beliefs.
    guises(as the different ways an agent can access the same proposition)
    Different ways of thinking about or presenting the same thing; for example, you might think of your best friend as 'my best friend' and also as 'the person sitting next to me,' which are two different guises of the same person.
    propositional attitudes(Fodor's 1980 reply to Searle)

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    Mental states characteristic of an organism that has a brain, such as beliefs and desires, which computational symbol manipulation alone is insufficient to produce.
    singular proposition(Used to explain why proposition (7) would require George Bush to exist in any world where proposition (7) exists.)
    A proposition whose constituents include the actual object(s) it is about, such that the proposition cannot exist without those objects existing.
    without contradiction(as the result that Russellian accounts permit)
    In a way that doesn't logically contradict itself; it's possible and consistent, rather than impossible or self-defeating.

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