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George Berkeley ( ) (12 March 1685 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory contends that individuals can only know directly sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as "matter". The theory also contends that ideas are dependent upon being perceived by minds for their very existence, a belief that became immortalized in the dictum, "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). He published his chief philosophical work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710.
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Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the following year until 1968. On his retirement in 1987, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.
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Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943 in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 1984. She is currently a professor at the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute. She won a MacArthur prize in 1991. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.). She taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland.
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Paul Churchland
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Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts (see "Unpublished Manuscripts and Online Lectures" below). Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A recent poll conducted among philosophers ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years.
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Stephen Stich
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Trying to stand clear of the scent of dogs
In a sweat 'til I, wave of extinction, scatter seed
All that is growing, clear energy
All that is growing, clear energy
Within our vision a hover wasps
Air and glower fill our veins
Heavy mining under the fall
Figures forming, stretching on
It was a dream it was a different state
To reach a place - unfamiliar & clear to this day
Just a face of you & light, no body
No belief required to receive
Want to hold on to you now
Want to smell your skin when I breathe in
Belief is one thing
I want you here now
Just one experience, that touches everything
Somehow opening & letting it all in
I shone it back to you & how good was the truth
My mind's okay with it but my body yearns
Want to hold on to you now
Want to smell your skin when I breathe in
Belief is one thing
I want you here now
I shone it back to you &
I shone it back to you &
Want to hold on to you now
Want to hold on...
It was a dream it was a different state
To reach a place - unfamiliar & clear to this day
Just a face of you & light, no body
No belief required to receive
Want to hold on to you now
Want to smell your skin when I breathe in
Belief is one thing
I want you here now
Want to hold on to you now (Want to hold on to you now)
Want to smell your skin when I breathe in (Want to hold
on to you now)
Belief is one thing
I want you here now
touches everything
touches everything
hold on to you now
hold on to you now
touches everything
touches everything
Is there anyone who
Ever remembers changing their mind from
The paint on a sign?
Is there anyone who really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time
Everyone believes
In how they think it ought to be
Everyone believes
And they're not going easily
Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching under water
You never can hit who you're trying for
Some need the exhibition
And some have to know they tried
It's the chemical weapon
For the war that's raging on inside
Everyone believes
From emptiness to everything
Everyone believes
And no ones going quietly
We're never gonna win the world
We're never gonna stop the war
We're never gonna beat this
If belief is what we're fighting for
What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand
Belief can
Belief can
What puts the folded flag inside his mother's hand
Belief can
Belief, makes things real
Makes things feel, feel alright
Belief, makes things true
Things like you, you and I
Tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife in the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body, with the wrath of a God
Oh, you stood by me
Belief builds from scratch
Doesn't have to relax, it doesn't need space
Long live the queen and I'll be the king
In the color of grace
Oh, tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife in the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body, with the wrath of a God
Oh, you stood by me, belief
I'm gonna yell it from the rooftops
I'll wear a sign on my chest
That's the least I can do, it's the least I can do
Tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife, in the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body, with the wrath of a God
Oh, you stood by me
Tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife, in the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body, with the wrath of a God
Oh, you stood by me and I'll stand by my belief
I will stand by my belief
I will stand by my belief, belief
Like you stood by me
Now I know
Nothing's ever what it seems
Money talks
Now I see Religion screams
I believe
What I hear and what I see
And in myself
The king of my own destiny
The angles of heavens, the demons of hell
The creatures we had to create
Why are you scared to see who you are
Be in control of your life
And fate
I can't see
Why you choose to dedicate
All your life
to assure you went to heaven's gate
The angles of heavens, the demons of hell
The creatures we had to create
Why are you scared to see who you are
Be in control of your life
And fate
I can't say
That I am right and you are wrong
But common sense can tell a truth or two
All those lives
Lost in battle of belief
An it's all because
You were pull to believe
In different lies
The angles of heavens, the demons of hell
The creatures we had to create
Why are you scared to see who you are
Be in control of your life
If god is above and the devil beneath
Then we all belong here on earth
Cause no one is good or evil to the core
All I ever need is the truth but I all ever want is affection
Masquerade as Jesus Christ and suffer the crucifixion
Lips that speak of love eternal come heal my savaged skin
Cast aside all thought of revenge searching for Nirvana within
And God only knows my belief holds strong
The wisdom comes when the heart suffers long
And I'm shedding tears for Judas a kiss may betray
And I'm on the side of angels on the heels of a dream a ghost to lay
A hard reign may fall and a cruel wind may blow
The moon may be pale and I may never know
The need for silence but I can see hope in the wind in the rain
Lay belief on me my angel child
The actor and the poet martyr castles carved in sand
Delight and the promise of Eden lay in the touch of your hand
As sweet as sin sweeter still the taste
The way of all flesh lay me to waste
And heaven knows that the meek shall inherit the earth
Lay belief on me my angel child
Behold a silent ocean in a precious grain of sand
And if I have to explain then you'll never understand
My petals are strewn scattered by the breeze
It's whispered in the wind echoes through the trees
Love's a disease and it rips me apart
Come heal my ravaged heart
can't stretch much farther lest my legs are torn away seems so much harder physically being in this place my ego is large though, I can't let them see me hurt those people seem evil, rooting in shit and breathing dirt just in time allowed for consumption you bow to what is handed your way true, victimless crime so everyone is breaking me well I tore myself on broken knees well I can't wait for us to collapse that would be fair but I don't want you back it's no wonder, you live under customs bear down on you can't change what's raised, first things learned kept whole way through is your tongue the one that controls what you do? comes from the lungs that's part of the cycle that breathes for you true, victimless crime unmake your mind so everyone is breaking up, my hope is dying, and I want it shut well I can't wait for us to collapse that would be fair our own weight snaps our back so everyone is breaking me well I tore myself on broken knees well I can't wait for us to collapse that would be fair but I don't want you back but I don't want you back (I don't want you back)
Is it love that you're after?
Don't ever tell you anything?
That's not love, that's confusion
Don't you ever find out anything?
Is it honesty that you're after?
Don't you have it questioning?
That's not honesty, that's delusion
Will you ever find out anything?
Believe me
Believe everything
Believe me
Believe anything (reapeat)
Is it love that you're wanting?
Don't ever tell you anything?
That's not love, that's confusion
Will you ever learn anything?
Is it answers that you're wanting?
Don't you ever find out anything?
Is it anything that you're wanting?
Oh everything
Believe me
Believe everything
Believe me
Believe anything (x8)
Belief
Belief
Belief
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- Let's Go (feat. Murs & C-Rayz Walz)
- Worker B
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- Dedication
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- Getyourmindright (feat. Murs & A.G.)
- Say Yes (feat. Vordul Mega, C-Rayz Walz, Murs & Wordsworth)
- Pastlight
- The Scared
- Drowning
- No Truth
- World Within You
- The 7th Day
- Judas
- Waiting
- Cold and Silent Place
- Waiting
- Ghosts of Yesterday
- Say It Again
- The Truth Is Out THere
- Do You Remember Me
- Carry Me
- With Knees Bowed
- At Your Mercy
- Remind Me Of Grace
- Job's Song
- Shall We Sin
- Next Time
- For The Asking
- Until That Day
- Only A Mystery
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John Mayer - Belief
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- Duration: 5:10
- Published: 22 Jun 2007
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
John Mayer - Belief - From Channel 4's "Live From Abbey Road" programme broadcast in March 2007.
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John Mayer - Where The Light Is - Belief [HQ]
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- Duration: 6:15
- Published: 19 Jul 2008
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
John Mayer and his full band performing 'Belief'. An extract from John Mayer's Official DVD "Where The Light Is". Good Watchin' and Listenin' Buy it NOW!!! =]
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Gavin DeGraw - Belief lyrics
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 06 Jan 2009
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Lyrics - Belief, makes things real. Makes things feel, feel alright. Belief, makes things true. Things like you, you and I. Tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me, Belief Builds from scratch. Doesn't have to relax, it doesn't need space. Long live the queen and I'll be the king. In the collar of grace. Oh, tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me, belief. I'm gonna yell it from the rooftops. I'll wear a sign on my chest. That's the least I can do, it's the least I can do. Tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife, in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me. And I'll stand by my belief.
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John Mayer - Belief (HQ)
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- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 21 Dec 2007
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
i love this john mayer song! ^^ hes so awesome. (C) All Rights Reserved For The Artist And Producing Company of This song. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CONTENT IN THIS VIDEO.
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John Mayer - Belief (Live in LA) [High Def!]
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- Duration: 6:03
- Published: 10 Jan 2010
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
From the live album and concert film "Where the light is". Live in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre on December 8 2007. Enjoy :)
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John Mayer - Belief *HD*
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- Duration: 5:53
- Published: 12 Mar 2009
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
John Mayer and his band performing "Belief" off of his live DVD "Where The Light Is"
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Beliefs
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- Duration: 7:07
- Published: 24 Apr 2010
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Your beliefs create your reality because they stem from your thoughts which have more power than most people realize. The source is Barbara Marciniak's book, Path of Empowerment.
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1. Gavin DeGraw - Belief
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 28 Aug 2008
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Lyrics: Belief, makes things real. Makes things feel, feel alright. Belief, makes things true. Things like you, you and I. Tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me, Belief Builds from scratch. Doesn't have to relax, it doesn't need space. Long live the queen and I'll be the king. In the collar of grace. Oh, tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me, belief. I'm gonna yell it from the rooftops. I'll wear a sign on my chest. That's the least I can do, it's the least I can do. Tonight, you arrested my mind. When you came to my defense. With a knife, in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body, with the wrath of a god. Oh, you stood by me. And I'll stand by my belief.
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OSHO: Anybody Who Gives You a Belief System is Your Enemy.
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 12 Aug 2006
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
OSHO International Foundation - www.osho.com Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. This video is available for translation as part of the OSHO TALKS Video Translation Project. Join the project as a translator at www.oshotalks.info -- http
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99 What is a Belief & Changing Memories
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- Duration: 9:37
- Published: 14 May 2008
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
www.fastereft.com 'Knowing what a belief is and how it works will make it easier for you to heal. Do we want to change the memories?
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The Power Of Belief - Anthony Robbins
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- Duration: 7:35
- Published: 25 Jun 2007
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Link. ANTHONY ROBBINS UNLIMITED POWER www.youtube.com NLP LAUGH YOUR FEARS AWAY Link www.youtube.com
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Gregg Braden: The Spontaneous Healing of Belief
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- Duration: 6:17
- Published: 03 Apr 2008
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
www.hayhouse.com What would it mean to discover that everything from the DNA of life, to the future of our world, is based upon a simple Reality Code—one that we can change and upgrade by choice? New revelations in physics and biology suggest that we're about to find out! A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that our universe works like a Consciousness Computer. Rather than the number codes of typical software, our Consciousness Computer uses a language that we all have, yet are only beginning to understand. Life's reality code is based in the language of human emotion and focused belief. Knowing that belief is our reality-maker, the way we think of ourselves and our world is now more important than ever! For us to change the beliefs that have led to war, disease, and the failed careers and relationships of our past we need a reason to see things differently. Our ancestors used miracles to change what they believed. Today we use science. The Spontaneous Healing of Belief offers us both: the miracles that open the door to a powerful new way of seeing the world, and the science that tells us why the miracles are possible, revealing: why we are not limited by the "laws" of physics and biology as we know them today. Once we become aware of the paradigm-shattering discoveries and true-life miracles, we must think of ourselves differently. And that difference is where the spontaneous healing of belief begins.
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The "False Belief" Test: Theory of Mind
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- Duration: 3:54
- Published: 07 Jan 2010
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Belief in belief - Daniel Dennett (part1)
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- Duration: 8:05
- Published: 09 Aug 2008
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Daniel Dennett professor of philosophy at Tufts University explains why religion receives so much undeserved respect by people that don't necessarily believe in God but believe in belief in God. The full lecture Daniel Dennett held at the AAI 07 conference can be seen here: www.youtube.com
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What is a Properly Basic Belief? (Alvin Plantinga)
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- Duration: 20:00
- Published: 27 Feb 2011
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
closertotruth.com - PBS' Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews Dr. Alvin Plantinga (often named as the most important living philosopher of religion today) about properly basic beliefs. Must everything have evidence and argument in order to rationally believe in it? Playlist www.youtube.com
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CFI-NYC | Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain
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- Duration: 79:37
- Published: 15 Jun 2011
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
On June 9, 2011, the Center for Inquiry-New York City and NYC Skeptics hosted noted skeptic and bestselling author Michael Shermer for a talk about his new book, "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths." The event was held at the Auditorium on Broadway. This is the full video, including both the talk and question-and-answer session. Correction: Michael Shermer is not executive director of NYC Skeptics, but of the Skeptics Society. Our apologies. For more: www.centerforinquiry.net/nyc www.nycskeptics.org
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belief
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- Duration: 4:27
- Published: 29 Dec 2005
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
a video by SHE
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Belief By Gavin Degraw
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 26 Dec 2006
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
great video made to the song
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Guitar Lesson: Belief by John Mayer - How to play Intro-Verse-Chorus-Outro
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- Duration: 16:41
- Published: 06 May 2011
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Learn how to play Belief by John Mayer in this new online guitar lesson and instructional youtube video. The guitar riff actually reminds me a little bit of sting and his "shape of my heart" & "Fragile". I don't know why, maybe it's got to do with the melody or just the emotion that goes with it. Ah well, I love all three of them. Have a nice day and: Enjoy this new electric guitar tutorial! André Check out the website:www.yourguitarworkshop.com Subscribe @ youtube Follow me @ twitter: www.twitter.com Join me @ facebook: www.facebook.com My UG profile: profile.ultimate-guitar.com
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John Mayer - Belief » HD 720p » Where The Light is Live in LA (2008)
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- Duration: 5:59
- Published: 06 Jan 2012
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
John Mayer and his full band performing 'Belief'.
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Hebe 的超高音SHE belief 现场版
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- Duration: 4:20
- Published: 12 Oct 2008
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
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How to Change Your Beliefs
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- Duration: 7:45
- Published: 06 May 2011
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
www.cytguides.com - George learns his first lesson about self improvement.
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The Belief of MMA - By Machinemen
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 16 May 2010
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Powerful highlight of the sport of MMA by Machinemen. Voice-over by John Doman. See all the Machinemen highlights at: machinemen.skyrock.com
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This article is about the general concept. For other uses, see Belief (disambiguation).
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Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.[1]
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Belief, knowledge and epistemology[link]
The terms belief and knowledge are used differently in philosophy.
Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge and belief. The primary problem in epistemology is to understand exactly what is needed in order for us to have true knowledge. In a notion derived from Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, philosophy has traditionally defined knowledge as "justified true belief". The relationship between belief and knowledge is that a belief is knowledge if the belief is true, and if the believer has a justification (reasonable and necessarily plausible assertions/evidence/guidance) for believing it is true.
A false belief is not considered to be knowledge, even if it is sincere. A sincere believer in the flat earth theory does not know that the Earth is flat. Later epistemologists, for instance Gettier (1963)[2] and Goldman (1967),[3] have questioned the "justified true belief" definition.
Belief as a psychological theory[link]
Mainstream psychology and related disciplines have traditionally treated belief as if it were the simplest form of mental representation and therefore one of the building blocks of conscious thought. Philosophers have tended to be more abstract in their analysis, and much of the work examining the viability of the belief concept stems from philosophical analysis.
The concept of belief presumes a subject (the believer) and an object of belief (the proposition). So, like other propositional attitudes, belief implies the existence of mental states and intentionality, both of which are hotly debated topics in the philosophy of mind, whose foundations and relation to brain states are still controversial.
Beliefs are sometimes divided into core beliefs (that are actively thought about) and dispositional beliefs (that may be ascribed to someone who has not thought about the issue). For example, if asked "do you believe tigers wear pink pajamas?" a person might answer that they do not, despite the fact they may never have thought about this situation before.[4]
That a belief is a mental state has been seen by some as contentious. While some[citation needed] have argued that beliefs are represented in the mind as sentence-like constructs, others[citation needed] have gone as far as arguing that there is no consistent or coherent mental representation that underlies our common use of the belief concept and that it is therefore obsolete and should be rejected.
This has important implications for understanding the neuropsychology and neuroscience of belief. If the concept of belief is incoherent, then any attempt to find the underlying neural processes that support it will fail.
Philosopher Lynne Rudder Baker has outlined four main contemporary approaches to belief in her controversial book Saving Belief:[5]
- Our common-sense understanding of belief is correct - Sometimes called the "mental sentence theory", in this conception, beliefs exist as coherent entities and the way we talk about them in everyday life is a valid basis for scientific endeavour. Jerry Fodor is one of the principal defenders of this point of view.
- Our common-sense understanding of belief may not be entirely correct, but it is close enough to make some useful predictions - This view argues that we will eventually reject the idea of belief as we use it now, but that there may be a correlation between what we take to be a belief when someone says "I believe that snow is white" and how a future theory of psychology will explain this behaviour. Most notably, philosopher Stephen Stich has argued for this particular understanding of belief.
- Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong and will be completely superseded by a radically different theory that will have no use for the concept of belief as we know it - Known as eliminativism, this view, (most notably proposed by Paul and Patricia Churchland), argues that the concept of belief is like obsolete theories of times past such as the four humours theory of medicine, or the phlogiston theory of combustion. In these cases science hasn't provided us with a more detailed account of these theories, but completely rejected them as valid scientific concepts to be replaced by entirely different accounts. The Churchlands argue that our common-sense concept of belief is similar in that as we discover more about neuroscience and the brain, the inevitable conclusion will be to reject the belief hypothesis in its entirety.
- Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong; however, treating people, animals, and even computers as if they had beliefs is often a successful strategy - The major proponents of this view, Daniel Dennett and Lynne Rudder Baker, are both eliminativists in that they believe that beliefs are not a scientifically valid concept, but they don't go as far as rejecting the concept of belief as a predictive device. Dennett gives the example of playing a computer at chess. While few people would agree that the computer held beliefs, treating the computer as if it did (e.g. that the computer believes that taking the opposition's queen will give it a considerable advantage) is likely to be a successful and predictive strategy. In this understanding of belief, named by Dennett the intentional stance, belief-based explanations of mind and behaviour are at a different level of explanation and are not reducible to those based on fundamental neuroscience, although both may be explanatory at their own level.
How beliefs are formed[link]
Psychologists study belief formation and the relationship between beliefs and actions. Beliefs form in a variety of ways:
- We tend to internalise the beliefs of the people around us during childhood. Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said that "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Political beliefs depend most strongly on the political beliefs most common in the community where we live.[6] Most individuals believe the religion they were taught in childhood.[7]
- People may adopt the beliefs of a charismatic leader, even if those beliefs fly in the face of all previous beliefs, and produce actions that are clearly not in their own self-interest.[8] Is belief voluntary? Rational individuals need to reconcile their direct reality with any said belief; therefore, if belief is not present or possible, it reflects the fact that contradictions were necessarily overcome using cognitive dissonance.
- The primary thrust of the advertising industry is that repetition forms beliefs, as do associations of beliefs with images of sex, love, and other strong positive emotions.[9][unreliable source?]
- Physical trauma, especially to the head, can radically alter a person's beliefs.[10]
However, even educated people, well aware of the process by which beliefs form, still strongly cling to their beliefs, and act on those beliefs even against their own self-interest. In Anna Rowley's Leadership Theory, she states "You want your beliefs to change. It's proof that you are keeping your eyes open, living fully, and welcoming everything that the world and people around you can teach you." This means that peoples' beliefs should evolve as they gain new experiences.[11]
Belief-in[link]
To "believe in" someone or something is a distinct concept from "believe-that". There are two types of belief-in:[12]
- Commendatory - an expression of confidence in a person or entity, as in, "I believe in his abililty to do the job".
- Existential claim - to claim belief in the existence of an entity or phenomenon with the implied need to justify its claim to existence. It is often used when the entity is not real, or its existence is in doubt. "He believes in witches and ghosts" or "many children believe in fairies" are typical examples.[13]
Delusional beliefs[link]
Delusions are defined as beliefs in psychiatric diagnostic criteria[citation needed] (for example in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Psychiatrist and historian G.E. Berrios has challenged the view that delusions are genuine beliefs and instead labels them as "empty speech acts", where affected persons are motivated to express false or bizarre belief statements due to an underlying psychological disturbance. However, the majority of mental health professionals and researchers treat delusions as if they were genuine beliefs.
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass the White Queen says, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." This is often quoted in mockery of the common ability of people to entertain beliefs contrary to fact.
Notes[link]
- ^ Schwitzgebel, Eric (2006), "Belief", in Zalta, Edward, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford, CA: The Metaphysics Research Lab, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/, retrieved 2008-09-19
- ^ Gettier, EL 1963, 'Is justified true belief knowledge?', Analysis, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 121-123
- ^ Goldman, AI 1967, 'A causal theory of knowing', The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 357-372
- ^ Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2006) A Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief. In Peter W. Halligan & Mansel Aylward (eds.) The Power of Belief: Psychological Influence on Illness, Disability, and Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853010-2
- ^ Lynne Rudder Baker, Saving Belief, Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-691-02050-1
- ^ Andrew Gelman, David Park, Boris Shor, Joseph Bafumi, Jeronimo Cortina, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13927-2
- ^ Michael Argyle, The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 978-0-415-12331-0, p.25 "Religion, in most cultures, is ascribed, not chosen."
- ^ Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002, ISBN 978-0-06-050591-2
- ^ Jane Kilbourne, Mary Pipher, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Free Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-684-86600-0
- ^ Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN 978-0-393-70327-6
- ^ Rowley, Anna. Leadership Therapy: Inside the Mind of Microsoft. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pg 69 ISBN 1-4039-8403-4
- ^ MacIntosh, J. J. 1994. "Belief-in Revisited: A Reply to Williams". Religious Studies, 30, no. 4: 487-503. doi:10.1017/S0034412500023131
- ^ Macintosh, Jack. "Belief-in", The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-926479-7
See also[link]
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- Charm
- Cognitive dissonance
- Collective belief
- Culture-specific syndrome
- Doxastic logic
- Evil eye
- Frankenstein
- Expectation (epistemic)
- Faith
- Folk psychology
- Gettier problem
- Idea
- Life stance
- Moore's paradox
- Nocebo
- Observer-expectancy effect
- Opinion
- Placebo
- Propositional attitude
- Propositional knowledge
- Psychosomatic illness
- Self-deception
- Spell (paranormal)
- Spirituality
- Subject-expectancy effect
- Sugar pill
- Suggestibility
- Suggestion
- Subjective validation
- Thomas theorem
- Truth
- Ultimate importance
- Unintended consequence
- Value (personal and cultural)
External links[link]
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- Belief entry by Eric Schwitzgebel in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- William Kingdon Clifford. Ethics of Belief Classic essay that belief by its nature is not ethical, with counterpoint by "The Will to Believe" of William James
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