The question - and it's not a small one - is what one ought believe. — Banno
No, Apo - belief is a point of view. — Banno
My hunch is that the belief gets activated only when someone or something casts doubt on the things "we usually do". — Dawnstorm
Wouldn't we distinguish instinct by the fact that it doesn't link up to any proposition? Or would you say that it actually does? — frank
So, that John is hungry, and that John believes eating a sandwich will remove his hunger, we have a sufficient causal explanation for why John ate the sandwich. — Banno
knowing-how, not knowledge-as-infallibility or deductively certain knowledge. — Janus
I would differentiate knowing-how from knowing-that, as is commonly done, but add that knowing-that is not opposed to knowing-how, but a subset of it. To know that something is the case is to know how to act, given that it is the case. — Banno
LSD flashback. Banno meets Timothy Leary. — Metaphysician Undercover
That's right, it's only a part of knowledge. But is there any belief apart from fallabilistic knowledge? Or to put it another way, don't we say that we believe rather than say that we know, only where there is some doubt? And is it not the case that doubt is relevant only in the context of fallibilistic knowledge? — Janus
Language takes belief and doubt to another (semiotic) level.
It is personal and unvoiced in animals. It may be there as part of cognition, but it not present in some depersonalised and metacognitive sense. — apokrisis
That is, there is a sense of choice in believing one thing rather than another, that is absent in instinct. We might have believed something else. — Banno
What we can't sensibly do is to say that we believe something that is not true. — Banno
What do you mean by "fallibilistic knowledge'? Falsifiable statements? Doubtful statements? — Banno
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