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.
Gist of Idea
Control of belief is possible if you know truth conditions and what causes beliefs
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)
Book Reference
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.101
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?