ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to formulate with some precision at least the main points of what seems the right answer to that question. W. E. Johnson has emphasized, is no part of any propositions but is attitudes that some persons have towards some propositions. A sentence is a correct formulation of a given opinion in a given language if it presents to other users of that language exactly the same opinion the utterer of the sentence intended to present. The various degrees of the sort of attitude one shall call the various epistemic attitudes. The relational sentence 'John loves Mary' eliminates the symbol of the epistemic attitude. The degree of inclination to believe which is neither positive nor negative will be called dubitancy rather than doubt, for 'doubt' in ordinary usage has several senses. An epistemic attempt is an attempt to resolve some question-some cognitional problem. And in every such attempt there is both a datum and a dubitatum.
