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Two different sets of Moorean paradoxes point to the seemingly contradictory conclusion that belief statements are both weaker as assertion and as strong as assertion.
We establish a distinction between the meaning and the uses of the attitudes and, among the uses, we propose to distinguish between public and private ones. While the main cutoff point between these two types of uses coincides, roughly, on the semantic side, with the bouletic vs. representational distinction, we argue that non-factive epistemic can also features two uses both as private and public.
Our analysis allows us to distinguish strength in "meaning" of belief and weakness in its "use", thus solving the seemingly contradictory Moorean paradoxes.
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