Problems of Belief |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I INTRODUCTORY | 9 |
THE NATURE OF BELIEF | 13 |
IMPLICIT BELIEFS | 30 |
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absolute truth actual aged alternative answers appear ascer astrologer attitude become belief and action Categorical Imperative Chapter claim cognitive conceived condition conflicts connexion contradiction conviction course criterion debatable beliefs deceive desire determine disbelief dishonest assertion dishonest belief dispute doctrine emotional essentially essentially logical evidence existence extinction faith false feel fiction function genuine half-belief Hence Horatio Bottomley human illusion implicit beliefs important impulse indeterminist indifferent intellectual knowledge less live live after death logical make-believe meaning merely metaphysics mind moral Moreover natural selection nature necessity never normal occult ourselves ourselves to know perhaps pernicious beliefs persecution pessimism pessimist philosophers positive possible prefer principles probably profess proof psychical fact psycho psychological pure question rational reality reason recognize religion religious scepticism seems sense serious simply social solipsism sort survival systems of belief theoretic theory things thought tion transubstantiated true ultimate uncon verbal vital