Attitudinal strength as distance to withholding
How should we understand the relationship between binary belief and degree of belief? To answer this question, we should look to desire. Whatever relationship we think holds between desire and degree of desire should be used as our model for the relationship we think holds between belief and degree...
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| description | How should we understand the relationship between binary belief and degree of belief? To answer this question, we should look to desire. Whatever relationship we think holds between desire and degree of desire should be used as our model for the relationship we think holds between belief and degree of belief. This parity pushes us towards an account that treats the binary attitudes as primary. But if we take binary beliefs as primary, we seem to face a serious problem. Binary beliefs are insufficiently discriminating. If we treat them as primary, we will lack the resources needed for fruitful theorizing. This problem can, I argue, be solved if we think of an agent’s degree of belief that p as reducible to her binary believing that p and the change in the apparent reasons that would be needed to get her to withhold. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1550662022-02-07T08:35:02Z Attitudinal strength as distance to withholding Forcehimes, Andrew T. School of Humanities Humanities::Philosophy Degree of Belief Degree of Desire How should we understand the relationship between binary belief and degree of belief? To answer this question, we should look to desire. Whatever relationship we think holds between desire and degree of desire should be used as our model for the relationship we think holds between belief and degree of belief. This parity pushes us towards an account that treats the binary attitudes as primary. But if we take binary beliefs as primary, we seem to face a serious problem. Binary beliefs are insufficiently discriminating. If we treat them as primary, we will lack the resources needed for fruitful theorizing. This problem can, I argue, be solved if we think of an agent’s degree of belief that p as reducible to her binary believing that p and the change in the apparent reasons that would be needed to get her to withhold. Ministry of Education (MOE) This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG62/19 (NS)). 2022-02-07T08:35:02Z 2022-02-07T08:35:02Z 2021 Journal Article Forcehimes, A. T. (2021). Attitudinal strength as distance to withholding. Philosophical Studies, 178(3), 963-981. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01467-2 0031-8116 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155066 10.1007/s11098-020-01467-2 2-s2.0-85084490446 3 178 963 981 en RG62/19 (NS) Philosophical Studies © 2020 Springer Nature B.V. All rights reserved. |
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