For expressivist, P1 and P2 are mental states and if both mental states are accepted C must also be accepted because of the inference-licensing property. This case seems ok for the expressivist on its face expect it will not be because of the wishful thinking problem. But let’s take another modus pones argument from Dorr. P1. If needles …show more content…
The first argument presented in this paper is an example of wishful thinking. It does not necessarily give us a reason to infer the conclusion. The wishful thinking problem is different from the inference-licensing property in two ways. The first way is that the inference-licensing property applies to all valid arguments. If one accepts the premise then one must also accept the conclusion. The second way is wishful thinking targets only mind to world mental states. While both are different in how they target the expressivist view, both do target