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Full Idea
With the concept of belief (e.g. in animals) comes recognition, expectation and surprise.
Gist of Idea
Having beliefs involves recognition, expectation and surprise
Source
Roger Scruton (Animal Rights and Wrongs [1996], p.15)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' [Demos 1996], p.15
A Reaction
A good observation. It is always tempting to see mental faculties in isolation, but each one drags along other capacities with it. Looks a bit holistic.
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| 2207 | Belief can't be a concept plus an idea, or we could add the idea to fictions [Hume] |
| 2208 | Belief is just a particular feeling attached to ideas of objects [Hume] |
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| 5780 | The three questions about belief are its contents, its success, and its character [Russell] |
| 5426 | Belief relates a mind to several things other than itself [Russell] |
| 8806 | The concepts of belief and truth are linked, since beliefs are meant to fit reality [Davidson] |
| 12149 | Indexicals are a problem for beliefs being just subject-proposition relations [Perry] |
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