has found a place in the mind — WISDOMfromPO-MO
What is it to have a place in the mind? — Banno
What sense does any translation or rendering like 'Believes(John, "The sky is blue")' make in these situations, as instances? How does such a rendering communicate to anyone else what is going on in such scenes? Isn't it just lexical rather than having any wider 'meaning'? — mcdoodle
What we might gain is a structure from which to build an understanding. — Banno
Maybe philosophically 'belief' is just a silly bit of linguistic bollox — mcdoodle
'belief' doesn't always translate well, interestingly, into other languages — mcdoodle
In A Skeptic Reading of Plato, I explore a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge. Beliefs, doxai, are deficient cognitive attitudes. In believing something, one accepts some content as true without knowing that it is true; one holds something to be true that could turn out to be false. Since our actions reflect what we hold to be true, holding beliefs is potentially harmful for oneself and others. Accordingly, beliefs are ethically worrisome and even, in the words of Plato’s Socrates, “shameful.” As I argue, this is a serious philosophical proposal. It speaks to intuitions we are likely to share, but it involves a notion of belief that is rather different from contemporary notions. Today, it is a widespread assumption that true beliefs are better than false beliefs, and that some true beliefs (perhaps those that come with justifications) qualify as knowledge. Socratic epistemology offers a genuinely different picture. In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Knowledge does not entail belief. Belief and knowledge differ in such important ways that they cannot both count as kinds of belief. As long as one does not have knowledge, one should reserve judgment and investigate by thinking through possible ways of seeing things.
What is it to have a place in the mind?
— Banno
Being a repressed memory.
Being in conscious thought presently and causing anxiety.
Etc. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Would you be comfortable with saying that the thermostat believed it was cold, so it turned on the heater? — Banno
A belief is simply information/data that has found a place in the mind — WISDOMfromPO-MO
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