[FRIAM] Doxastic logic - Wikipedia

[Nick Thompson]

Glen, 

Well, answering in the sophistic manner, because logically speaking, acting tentatively affirms tentativeness.  

Let's me think about this for a moment.  If acting and believing are inextricable then the following question becomes relevant.  Is it possible (can you give me an example) of a contradictory ACTION.  EG, can I both stop to pick up the Wheaties that I just dropped on the floor flake (that my wife will kill me for leaving there} and NOT stop to pick it up?  Because, if we can have our cake and eat it to in the behavior department AND we are Peirceans, the we probably can have our cake and eat it too in the belief department. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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If you, as a non-dualist, allow for tentative action, why not allow for tentative belief?

On 09/21/2017 02:20 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Peirce defined belief as that upon which we act and doubt as the absence of belief.  It follows logically that anything we act on affirms some belief and, therefore, at the moment of action, extinguishes all contrary beliefs.  If you follow me here, I may appear to win the argument, but only on sophistic points.  

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