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| Belief, philosophy: attitude of considering a sentence to be true. Unlike religious faith belief is linked to the assessment of probabilities. A belief is an attitude of a thinking person which can usually be formulated in a sentence, whereby the person must be able to integrate the sentence into a set of further sentences. A further condition is that the bearer of beliefs is able to reformulate the corresponding sentences and negate them, that is, to grasp their meaning. See also religious belief, propositional attitudes, intensions, probability, belief degrees, private language._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Michael Esfeld on Beliefs - Dictionary of Arguments
I 50 ~ Belief/Quine/Esfeld: a foundation is not possible because of the fundamental revisability of each belief. Confirmation holism: because individual belief can be justified only through experience, each belief can be revised (Type B). >Foundation, >Experience. Confirmation holism refers to the belief-system of an individual - that is justification holism. No belief can be a foundation (type A or B). >Confirmation. I 95ff Intra-personnel problem: the changes of beliefs are a problem here. An inter-personnel problem is the communication (same meanings?). Inferential context: the inferential context is the linguistic use in the community. Contents: content will therefore not be determined in the system of beliefs, but externally. One should not ask which other beliefs the persons have but what they should have. Therefore, belief is not in the head. There are identity conditions for them (for intentional content there are no identity conditions). >Content, >Identity conditions. I 132ff Beliefs/Esfeld: beliefs are a basic linguistic unity because they are the only ones which have the dual character: one can ask for reasons for them and they can even be given as reasons. >Justification, >Reasons. I 161ff Belief/Esfeld: beliefs can result in determinations that go beyond what we are ready for -> answer dependence of our terms: something is only red if it appears red for normal observers under normal circumstances: "it belongs to the concept that ... ": is not a reduction on appearance. However answer dependence does not include characteristics in the recipient. >Terminology/Esfeld, >Qualities/Esfeld._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Es I M. Esfeld Holismus Frankfurt/M 2002 |
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