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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 5. Controlling Beliefs

2462	Control of belief is possible if you know truth conditions and what causes beliefs [Fodor]
	Full Idea: Premeditated cognitive management is possible if knowing the contents of one's thoughts would tell you what would make them true and what would cause you to have them.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)
	A reaction: I love the idea of 'cognitive management'. Since belief is fairly involuntary, I subject myself to the newspapers, books, TV and conversation which will create the style of beliefs to which I aspire. Why?