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Of what? Sure, you can imagine stuff. But you are looking at your screen now; you are not looking at a model of your screen constructed by your brain.

Sure, I'm mapping out a series of related terms, on the premise that the apparent confusion stems from lack of precision. Putting it roughly and brief...

I'd urge caution here. There is a notion of "model" descending from Kant and used in philosophy of mind, and by association in cognitive science, insi...

, In what is called"folk psychology", or less prejudicially "intentional discourse", belief is used to explain behaviour. Why did Isaac walk up the hi...

Fact Check-No evidence of pandemic ‘mass formation psychosis’, say experts speaking to Reuters ...but of course that's what they would say, isn't it? ...

Yes. Interesting article. What I fond problematic is the language that describes the neural net as "representing" how things are, or as "models". My r...

Well, I'm not sure of the extent of our disagreement either, but further if we do disagree then you are probably right. I've a vague notion of how bel...

The usual story in philosophy since Socrates is that if it is pointed out to someone that they are being irrational, they will modify their behaviour ...

Ah. So all this is just to day that sometimes folk say "I feel certain..." as equivalent to "I believe...", and this is distinct from "I am certain......

This? I admit to not having been able to make sense of it. He hasn't made a case for what the difference consists in. Hence my counterexample: Seems t...

If you could be wrong, then you are not certain. Perhaps you are using "I am certain..." somewhat irregularly to indicate that the degree of doubt can...

No. They were a pro-lifer and now they are not. A change of mind.

Yes, indeed, a few of them, but the one you may mean was Logical Nihilism. Gillian Russell's work has lead me to doubt that there are completely gener...

Thanks, but I'd rather you found issue with what I said and sort to correct my errors... :wink:

They changed their mind. It happens. Beliefs are subject to change without notice. A better example might be a pro-lifer so certain of the sanctity of...

It's discomforting perhaps because of the multitude of issues it raises. I'll try to give a sense of what is involved. First, not all normative evalua...

So we agree that (1) is consistent, (2) is contradictory. You cannot explain it again, since you did not explain it in the first place. This is from o...

Why? This is too fast a step. It is not obvious that the notion of "what it is like" consciousness is coherent, nor that it is impossible for a suffic...

That's a gross oversimplification; as if the only choice were between Dennett and Heidegger.

Trust you to raise the issue of inconsistency in such an uncomfortable way. :wink: "Uncomfortable" because those with a philosophical inclination tend...

A day later I still do not see what you are trying to get at. Dictionaries provide an outline of the many ways a word is used. One such definition is ...

I'm not at all sure what your position is. Where are you looking for your etymology? Nothing I have access to has anything like "be persuaded of the t...

Interesting. The proto-Germic "hold dear" is presumably pre-christian, dating from before the fifth century. SO that perhaps precedes any theological ...

After all, the title is "A few Strong words..."

So... where to with all this? It seems a reply to your quoting me here: Is there a point of disagreement here?

@"ZzzoneiroCosm" This: I believe the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong I am certain that the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong. Do you...

I'm not surprised.

@"Janus" Here: I believe the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong I am certain that the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong. Do we agree th...

Unfair. :wink: So where are we up to? What would you have me re-read?

That's appalling.

Sure. Is that a problem?

I don't see why one would suppose such a thing. It seems there is a step in your reasoning that I have missed. Something like, that instead of "If the...

There are degrees of belief - from impossible through possible to certain. One might colloquial call these degrees of certainty.

Well, no; quite the reverse. Here it is again: There is a common distinction made between being certain of something and believing it. Your account de...

I don't disagree. Indeed, the grammar proposed here makes it clear that one can believe without being certain. Yep.

They could be in any of a variety of places, but they are believed to be in the car. So what. You line of thought remains obscure.

If you were a competent user of English you might believe the keys to be in the car while not being certain of it. Your terminology leads to the confu...

No. I believe that the keys are in the car. I do not believe that it is necessarily true that the keys are in the car. The confusion is yours.

Consider these two sentences: I believe the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong I am certain that the keys are in the car, but I might be wrong....

Rubbish. It's common to treat things as true, even though we might be wrong. I believe the keys are in the tray, even though I might be wrong. I belie...

We ought go back and relate this to 's OP. Ken admonishes those who believe, claiming that belief is a confusing notion and that we ought avoid it. I ...

I've set out a grammar that overcomes the issues here. You are simply offering an alternative grammar, one that fails to make the common distinction b...

Do you have to do something?

I can't see how this related to anything I have said. Why would I be committed to such an oddity? Ah - see There is a difference between being certain...

Hey, folks, it is possible for one to believe something and yet not be certain of it.

How does this "force" you to do any such thing? Risible. You " accept and entertain" that my claim is true. Hence you believe the claim, even if only ...

And are they right? What do you think? I think you should read the article before critiquing it.

A belief is something you take to be true. So you provisional believe tectonic plate theory. Again, so what. All you are doing is not using the word "...

That's just wordplay - the belief you have when you don't have a belief. All it says is that anything that is not known but seems reasonable can be be...

Here's the take-home from all this, in relation to @"Ken Edwards"' OP. We fail when we believe too much, for then we believe things that are not true....