pro-attituden.
/ˈprəʊatᵻtjuːd/, /ˈprəʊatᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˈproʊædəˌt(j)ud/ Philosophy.
A favourable or positive attitude (such as approval, pleasure, satisfaction, etc.) towards anything apprehended as good or desirable.
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1935 C. A. Campbell in Mind 44 298 All usages of the term ‘good’ signify at least this common feature in that to which goodness is attributed, viz., that it is the object of what may perhaps least misleadingly be called a pro-attitude.
1947 A. C. Ewing Def. of Good ii. 68 A slightly different view would be that to call anything ‘good’ is to say that it is the object of some ‘pro attitude’ on the part of most people... I use ‘pro attitude’ to cover desiring, liking, seeking, choosing, approving, admiring, etc.
1954 P. H. Nowell-Smith Ethics (1957) 102 To explain actions in terms of pro-attitudes entails no view whatsoever about the objects of these attitudes.
1964 A. Edel in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 224 We may omit here the internal operation of general values, in the sense of obligations and pro-attitudes not peculiar to social science—regard for truth, objectivity and impartiality, [etc.].
1992 Mind 101 86 Davidson is fundamentally committed to the goal of ‘demystifying’ the connection between reasoning and acting through appeal to the agent's wants and other pro attitudes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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