...a belief is not the sort of thing that one holds. — Banno
What sort of thing is Jack's belief? — creativesoul
I'm not saying animals don't believe, I'm saying that they don't form or hold beliefs. — Janus
Our observations clearly show us that animals attribute causality. That requires thought and belief. To think that fire caused tremendous discomfort is to believe that touching fire causes pain. It is to draw mental correlations between one's own actions and what followed. It does not require, nor can it, propositional content(unless you want to argue that propositions aren't dependent upon language). — creativesoul
You have equivocated by referring to a rule as both a rule and your interpretation of a rule. — Luke
Thought is even more equivocal than belief here. — apokrisis
equivocal - ɪˈkwɪvək(ə)l - adjective
- open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
"the equivocal nature of her remarks"
- (of a person) using ambiguous or evasive language.
"he has always been equivocal about the meaning of his lyrics" — apokrisis
...two sides of the abstraction/concrete dichotomy, — creativesoul
The approach I am examining is, why think of beliefs as things? — Banno
So what counts as Jack's belief? — creativesoul
but not in the manner described in the common historical account(JTB) of belief. — creativesoul
This came from Sam26 musing about beliefs as both mental states and states of the brain.
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Whatever we use to reasonably explain his behaviour. — Banno
Jack forms and holds belief, but not in the manner described in the common historical account(JTB) of belief. — creativesoul
To attribute a belief to an agent is to explain the agent's actions... — sime
Nobody defines beliefs and other mental states in terms of the processing of neurological tokens but purely in terms of the overt potential behaviour that agents display that could be physically instantiated in an infinite number of ways... — sime
States of the brain, mental states, cannot reasonably explain behaviour, because the former is passive and the latter is active. So this belief is lacking in truth. — Metaphysician Undercover
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