(August 29, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Yes. You are not really a cannibal. You are just crazy and believe yourself to be a cannibal. (Unless, of course, you are really eating human flesh on other occasions, in which case you are actually a cannibal.)
More correctly, he believes himself to be doing that thing that would make him a cannibal, whilst simultaneously believing that doing that thing in fact would not make him a cannibal.
Yes. That point was made in an earlier post which I did not repeat in the post you quoted. But you do state it better anyway.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
