Transformations of Belief

  • Richard Jeffrey
Part of the Philosophical Studies Series book series (PSSP, volume 83)

Abstract

Today, religious and secular belief are commonly set apart, but it was not so when modern epistemology was taking shape in Europe; by offering new, life-threatening religious choices, the Reformation gave anew sort of practical importance to “Credo”, and, with it, to meaning and truth (a propos of “Hoc est corpus meum ”. Here is a famous 16th century statement of the problem and its skeptical solution.

Keywords

Conditional Probability Probabilistic Judgment Data Sentence Conscious Deliberation Observation Sentence 
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Notes

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    Leslie A. Real, “Animal Choice Behavior and the Evolution of Cognitive Architecture”, Sciences 253 (191), pp. 980–986.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

Authors and Affiliations

  • Richard Jeffrey
    • 1
  1. 1.Princeton UniversityUSA

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