minsky.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>
> I regard the idea of "believing" to be unsound, because it is a
> pre-Freudian concept, which assumes that each person has a "single
> self" that maintains beliefs. A more realistic view is that each
> person is constantly switching among various different "ways to think"
> in which different assertions, statements, or bodies of knowledge keep
> changing their status, etc. Accordingly our "sets of beliefs" can
> include many conflicts--and in different mental contexts, those
> inconsistencies may get resolved in different ways, perhaps depending
> on one's current priorities, etc.
I'm not sure what you're thinking of. Do you think of beliefs as all-or-nothing? Can you give some examples?
Brent Meeker
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Received on Tue Dec 26 2006 - 18:38:03 PST