Belief Attributions
"Belief attributions" are uses of sentences of the form N believes that s (where N is a noun phrase, s a sentence). Their semantic and logical properties have been de...
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Belief
Beliefs are a species of propositional attitude distinguished by their having the mind-to-world direction of fit.
Propositional attitudes are psychological states characterized by a psychologic...
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Knowledge, the Priority Of
One fairly specific understanding of the priority of knowledge is the idea that instead of trying to explain knowledge in terms of belief plus truth, justification, and some...
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THE EFFECTS OF BELIEFS
Beliefs affect the capacity to reason logically and the capacity to recognize valid arguments. There are many types of beliefs such as faith, religious belief, superstition, tr...
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To further investigate this topic we first have to define what exactly belief is, which the dictionary (dictionary.com) defines it as "Mental acceptance and conviction in the truth, actuality, or val...
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