Questions tagged [belief]
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What is an explanation really?
Let's consider a hypothetical 'Church of the Moon' on a distant planet with a huge moon. The members of this church base all their beliefs about the moon and their religious practices on their holy ...
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Is there a detailed doxastic logic with a doubt operator?
I was "experimenting" with a doxastic logic with a doubt operator D besides the belief operator B, trying to come up with intuitive equivalences of interleavings (e.g. DBA = BDA, perhaps), ...
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The deception clause in lying
What if I am asked a question, and respond with an untruth I know is untrue, and I don't really care if I am believed, but definitely don't want to be found out (I don't want anyone to know Ive ...
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Do superstitions follow the logic of the empty universe?
Superstitions are of two kinds, false belief about real onjects ( cat crossed road brings bad luck), or belief about objects that cannot exist (ghosts inhabit places where someone was murdered).
Since ...
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Is it rational to suspend belief in everything except necessarily true/false statements?
Is it rational to suspend belief, in any shape or form, in every statement unless it is logically necessary or incoherent?
For example, is it rational to simply not believe that the sun will rise ...
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Is there any psychological research into, or theory about, propositional attitude reports？
What do propositional attitudes such as belief and suspicion mean not just as logical (syntactic) conceptions but as something in the mind？ When I believe or feel skeptical about certain propositions ...
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Summary of philosophical positions on how belief revision proceeds in mathematics?
Since mathematicians have embraced classical logic, as e.g. MacFarlane points out in his 2021 intro book to philosophical logic (§ 7.4), one needs to distinguish between [meta-]reasoning and argument/...
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Are political "ism"-beliefs artificial? But some of them must exist, so how can they be measured?
Are political "ism"-beliefs artificial? But some of them must exist, so how can they be measured?
Over and over again, I find concepts such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism
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Is justification for X being true different to justification for believing that X is true?
It could be said that to believe that X is true is simply to hold that X is the case. Truth is a characteristic of statements, not the world. So justification for X being true is exactly the same ...
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How can "tolerate" not be considered a propositional attitude?
How can tolerate not be considered a propositional attitude? That is the question that has plagued me the last few days. This follows a graduate workshop in which another student put forth the ...
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What does the Principal Principle say about our rational credences in outcomes?
According to David Lewis, the Principal Principle says that “our beliefs about the objective chances of outcomes (typically) determine our rational credences in those outcomes.”
I’m assuming that this ...
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Why do we believe certain things if they can’t be justified?
Russell said that “there is no difference between sanity and insanity” if Hume’s problem of induction cannot be solved.
To me, I am not sure if I can justify that the sun will rise tomorrow, even ...
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Is the reasonableness of a belief or moral claim relative?
Is the reasonableness of a belief or moral claim relative? I found some articles on the ethical word "reasonable", but lack access. Apparently it is key to "liberal" political ...
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How does pluralism about doxastic logic work?
If person M has a concept of belief, and a logic for that concept, B1, but some other person N has concept B2, with different inference rules over the operator, then on the first-order level, does M ...
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Degrees of belief without evidence
I'm not sure this is really a philosophy question.
Suppose that I have some evidence that my wife is having an affair, but it all dates back to a year ago. How do I incorporate the lack of evidence ...
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Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked?
Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked? It is a common adage that gullible people are to blame for it, even if it is not exactly immoral to be ...
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Are there beliefs that are non-propositional?
What, if they exist, are non-propositional beliefs? Are beliefs Propositionalised representations by definition, or can they exist in other forms?
Would they just exist as a memory of raw sense data / ...
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Can one only believe in perceptions?
In the following example provided by SEOP, Kai is said to believe a proposition:
for example, when Kai reads that astronomers no longer classify Pluto as a planet, he acquires a new belief (in this ...
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What is the relation between Belief and one's Axioms?
Suppose Person A believes in [Fact 1]. Is this equivalent to Person A 'operating' with the axiom: "Fact 1 is true" (and any axioms necessitated by Fact 1).
Similarly if Person A states their ...
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Do you actually believe something or you think you believe something because you have accumulated?
So what exactly is the dot line or a break point between knowing something and believing in something, level plus from basic philosophy.
When you think you believe in something, is that actually just ...
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Is expecting an outcome based on past occurrences alone superstition?
I have observed 2 phenomena so far, out of which the first i believed is superstition :
Phenomena 1 :
Around 80% of the times some one said 'what a beautiful boy' my son has fallen sick. There is ...
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Is true beauty long lasting (through long periods of time)? Is beauty therefore objective?
When people think of objects that are considered "beautiful," people think of gold, diamonds, and crystals. These objects are resistant to change over time and tend to last in their original forms. ...
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