@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Nagel,Thomas}, subject = {Beliefs}, note = {I 50 ff Belief: belief is always a belief in the truth of what is believed. Therefore, the distinction betw the merely phenomenological recognition of rational thinking and recognition of its objective validity is incomprehensible. >Skepticism/Nagel. E.g. I cannot say "I believe that p", but this is merely a psychological fact that concerns me. As for the truth, I do not I commit myself. I 186 Def belief/Peirce: the statement that we believe is the one for which we are ready to act. Full of Faith is the willingness to act in vital crises according to the corresponding statement. >Statement, >Assertion, >Action, >Certainty. - - - III 65 Belief/world/reality/Nagel: beliefs are not simply more phenomena of the world.}, note = { NagE I E. Nagel The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation Cambridge, MA 1979 Nagel I Th. Nagel The Last Word, New York/Oxford 1997 German Edition: Das letzte Wort Stuttgart 1999 Nagel II Thomas Nagel What Does It All Mean? Oxford 1987 German Edition: Was bedeutet das alles? Stuttgart 1990 Nagel III Thomas Nagel The Limits of Objectivity. The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, in: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 1980 Vol. I (ed) St. M. McMurrin, Salt Lake City 1980 German Edition: Die Grenzen der Objektivität Stuttgart 1991 NagelEr I Ernest Nagel Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science New York 1982 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=276556} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=276556} }