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Believing and Accepting (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Believing and Accepting (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 83
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(1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct
voluntary control. For instance I cannot believe at will that my
trousers are on fire, or that the Dalai Lama is a living God, even
if you pay me a large amount of money for believing such things.
(2) Beliefs are nonnally shaped by evidence for what is believed,
unless they are, in some sense, irrational. In general a belief is
rational if it is proportioned to the degree of evidence that one
has for its truth. In this sense, one often says that "beliefs aim
at truth" . This is why it is, on the face of it, irrational to
believe against the evidence that one has. A subject whose beliefs
are not shaped by a concern for their truth, but by what she wants
to be the case, is more or less a wishful thinker or a
self-deceiver. (3) Beliefs are context independent, in the sense
that at one time a subject believes something or does not believe
it; she does not believe it relative to one context and not
relative to another. For instance if I believe that Paris is a
polluted city, I cannot believe that on Monday and not on Tuesday;
that would be a change of belief, or a change of mind, but not a
case of believing one thing in one context and another thing in
another context. If I believe something, the belief is more or 4
less pennanent across various contexts.
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