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Belief, Rational and Justified [PDF]
It is clear that beliefs can be assessed both as to their justification and their rationality. What is not as clear, however, is how the rationality and justification of belief relate to one another.
Siscoe, Wes
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AbstractWhile logical formalizations of group notions of knowledge such as common and distributed knowledge have received considerable attention in the literature, most approaches being based on modal logic, group notions of belief have received much less attention.
Ågotnes, Thomas, Wang, Yi N.
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Beliefs, make-beliefs, and making believe that beliefs are not make-beliefs
In this paper I want to hold, first, that one may suitably reconstruct the relevant kind of mental representational states that fiction typically involves, make-beliefs, as contextually unreal beliefs that, outside fiction, are either matched or non-matched by contextually real beliefs.
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There is considerable evidence for the effectiveness of mind–body interventions (MBIs) in improving mental and physical health, but the molecular mechanisms of these benefits remain poorly understood.
Ivana Buric +8 more
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Catastrophizing mediates the relationship between the personal belief in a just world and pain outcomes among chronic pain support group attendees [PDF]
Health-related research suggests the belief in a just world can act as a personal resource that protects against the adverse effects of pain and illness.
A Furnham +58 more
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To believe is to believe true [PDF]
It is argued that to believe is to believe true. That is, when one believes a proposition one thereby believes the proposition to be true. This is a point about what it is to believe rather than about the aim of belief or the standard of correctness for ...
Sankey, Howard
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This paper presents a general framework for studying diverse beliefs in dynamic economies. Within this general framework, the characterization of a central-planner general equilbrium turns out to be very easy to derive, and leads to a range of interesting applications.
Angus A Brown, L C G Rogers
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This paper reports on the findings of a study by design graduates on their belief and intention on ethical issues in the creative design industry. The study was conducted at two universities (University A and University B) in Malaysia, which included 120
B. Balakrishnan +4 more
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Experience Does Justify Belief [PDF]
According to Fumerton in his "How Does Perception Justify Belief?", it is misleading or wrong to say that perception is a source of justification for beliefs about the external world.
Silins, Nicholas
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AbstractIs the analysis of religion best conducted in terms of the beliefs of its practitioners? I describe a Wittgenstein-inspired approach to belief on which it is dubious that religious practices satisfy the criteria for the attribution of belief. I defend this more moderate and plausible version of Needham's thesis against two natural reasons to ...
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