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Mar 24, 2020 · There are two justifications for the state: one is functional, since the creation of political authority is necessary to solve the deficiencies of the state of nature at least as regards the protection of people’s natural rights; and the other is consent, as people in the state of nature are imagined to agree to a political order, an act ...
Aug 8, 2022 · Sometimes people hold onto false beliefs despite ample contradictory evidence; sometimes they change their beliefs without sufficient reason. Here, we propose that the utility of a belief is derived from the potential outcomes associated with holding it.
Apr 21, 2006 · In the logic of belief revision (belief change), a belief state (or database) is represented by a set of sentences. The major operations of change are those consisting in the introduction or removal of a belief-representing sentence.
May 20, 2020 · There has been mounting evidence to suggest that beliefs are more than just tools to achieve external goals. Rather, beliefs are a source of value in and of themselves, such that people are motivated to hold particular beliefs.
- Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin, Tali Sharot
- 2020
Jul 28, 2022 · In cognitive science, beliefs are propositional attitudes, where the world is depicted as being in some state or another (Schwitzgebel, 2021). Beliefs have two main properties: some representational content and assumed veracity (Stephens and Graham, 2004).
We are naturally free and equal; no one person has more natural power or right to rule than another. Locke maintains “that all men are naturally in that state, and remain so, till by their own consents they make themselves members of some politic society” (129).
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Oct 17, 2021 · The so-called cognitive dissonance (see Chapter 5) is a well-known example of the phenomenon that instead of radically changing one’s fundamental beliefs in the face of facts, a person may only add some exceptions and superficial changes to an already existing belief system (Festinger et al., 1956).
