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20 Σεπ 2021 · Key points. Unlike knowledge, beliefs tend to lack certainty or evidence. Passionate beliefs are infused with intense emotion and therefore are activating or motivating. People believe...
Let’s consider a helpful evolutionary framework for making more coherent sense of what beliefs really are, and why mistaken beliefs can sometimes be so hard to change.
In Reformed epistemology, beliefs are held to be properly basic if they are reasonable and consistent with a sensible world view. Anti-foundationalism rejects foundationalism and denies there is some fundamental belief or principle which is the basic ground or foundation of inquiry and knowledge.
20 Αυγ 2018 · Typically properly basic beliefs are beliefs that are justified by experience. Suppose, for example, that I am in a classroom and see an apple on the teacher's desk in front of me. Suppose also that I form the belief that there is an apple on the desk in front of me and that belief is justified.
On the classical view, therefore, a properly basic belief is one that is basic - not founded upon other beliefs - and that is properly so in virtue of its truth (or at least probable truth) being transparent to the subject.
Beliefs, according to the tradition in philosophy, are states of mind that have the property of being about things-things in the world, as well as abstract things, events in the past and things only imagined.
Belief is introduced as the cognitive act or state in which a proposition is taken to be true, and the psychological theory of belief is reviewed under the headings: belief as a propositional attitude, belief as subjective probability, belief as inference, and belief as association.
