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Single Idea 13592
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
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Full Idea
Beliefs have been ascribed to machines, in support of a mechanistic philosophy, and I share this attitude.
Gist of Idea
Beliefs can be ascribed to machines
Source
Willard Quine (Intensions Revisited [1977], p.123)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.123
A Reaction
[He cites Raymond Nelson] One suspects that this is Quine's latent behaviourism speaking. It strikes me as a crass misuse of 'belief' to ascribe it to a simple machine like a thermostat.
The
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[mental state aiming at truth (Gk. doxa)]:
3605
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We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it
[Descartes]
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2209
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Belief is stronger, clearer and steadier than imagination
[Hume]
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5634
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Opinion is subjectively and objectively insufficient; belief is subjective but not objective; knowledge is both
[Kant]
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14875
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Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases
[Nietzsche]
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5937
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The goodness of opinions depends on their grounds, and corresponding degrees of conviction
[Ross]
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13592
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Beliefs can be ascribed to machines
[Quine]
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5309
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Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival
[Wilson,EO]
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3743
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We can't contemplate our beliefs until we have expressed them
[O'Connor]
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3748
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Without language our beliefs are particular and present
[O'Connor]
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11145
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Having a belief involves the possibility of being mistaken
[Davidson]
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5806
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Belief is the power of metarepresentation
[Dretske]
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3872
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We must assess the truth of beliefs in identifying them
[Newton-Smith]
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16392
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A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property
[Lewis, by Recanati]
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12899
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The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer
[Lewis]
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8808
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Involuntary beliefs can still be evaluated
[Feldman/Conee]
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12583
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Belief truth-conditions are normal circumstances where the belief is supposed to occur
[Papineau]
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3591
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We could never pin down how many beliefs we have
[Williams,M]
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12582
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The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p
[Millikan]
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2986
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Belief is the most important propositional attitude
[Lyons]
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4096
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Maybe beliefs don't need to be conscious, if you are not conscious of the beliefs guiding your actions
[Crane]
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4097
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Maybe there are two kinds of belief - 'de re' beliefs and 'de dicto' beliefs
[Crane]
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2390
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We attribute beliefs to people in order to explain their behaviour
[Chalmers]
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19743
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A notebook counts as memory, if is available to consciousness and guides our actions
[Clark/Chalmers]
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10337
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We can have knowledge without belief, if others credit us with knowledge
[Kusch]
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4762
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The Humean theory of motivation is that beliefs may be motivators as well as desires
[Engel]
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23551
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It is necessary for a belief that it be held for a length of time
[Fricker,M]
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19696
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There are reasons 'for which' a belief is held, reasons 'why' it is believed, and reasons 'to' believe it
[Neta]
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19697
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The basing relation of a reason to a belief should both support and explain the belief
[Neta]
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