In-between Believing |
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Authors: | Eric Schwitzgebel |
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Affiliation: | University of California, Riverside |
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Abstract: | For any proposition p , it may sometimes occur that a person is not quite accurately describable as believing that p , nor quite accurately describable as failing to believe that p . I describe such a person as in an 'in-between state of belief'. I argue for the prevalence of in-between states of believing, and assert the need for an account of belief that allows us intelligibly to talk about in-between believing. I suggest that Bayesian and representationalist approaches are inadequate to the task, and that a Rylean dispositional account of belief might do the trick. |
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