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Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind (Hardcover)
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Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind (Hardcover)
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It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind
together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for
both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational
necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation
between one person's beliefs. Here, Eric Marcus argues that the
unity of the rational mind-what makes it one mind-is what explains
why, given what we already believe, we can't believe certain things
and must believe certain others in this special sense. What
explains this is that beliefs, and the inferences by which we
acquire them, are constituted by a particular kind of endorsement
of those very states and acts. This, in turn, entails that belief
and inference are essentially self-conscious: to hold a belief or
to make an inference is at the same time to know that one does. An
examination of the nature of belief and inference, in light of the
phenomenon of rational necessity, reveals how the unity of the
rational mind is a function of our knowledge of ourselves as bound
to believe the true. Rational self-consciousness is the form of
mental togetherness.
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