Patrick Maher on Belief, Action, and Acceptance

Posted on Fri 06 August 2010 in Rumination • Tagged with belief, rationality

Rational Belief: Rational Acceptance or Rational Action?

Patrick Maher in his book Betting on Theories (1993, chapter 6) notes two common assumptions about belief:

(1) An agent A believes in H just in case A is willing to act as if H were true.
(2) Sincere intentional assertion of H …


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