(April 26, 2013 at 10:04 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(April 26, 2013 at 8:41 am)Dawud Wrote: There are some on this forum who use the term belief to imply doubt but contemporary analytic philosophers of mind generally use the term “belief” to refer to the attitude we have, roughly, whenever we take something to be the case or regard it as true.Nope. You're misunderstanding the contemporary view the 'knowledge' is a subset of 'belief' commonly called 'justified-true belief'. This is a response to Descartes and allows philosophers to separate perceptual reality from the existential doubts (when agreed in definitions).
Consequently everything else you wrote is wrong.
Quote:Lots of people claim not to have belief in what they know - can we drop this more sloppy usage in the forum.Well, I won't because it's not sloppy, it's granular and precise when applied to preceptual reality and justified-true belief. You just misunderstand its use.
To be fair, it is a quotation from one of the most authoritative and up to date encyclopaedias of philosophy in the English speaking world.
Your assertion that its wrong doesn't make you wrong - it just highlights your difference from academic philosophers in the English speaking world.
It's a difference Im happy to accept on this forum though - I'm just explaining that it is my humble background in academic philosophy that led me to use these standard definitions.
Stanford OEP btw
(A fantastic free resource that I suggest you make use of at some point!)
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