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Griffin Pion @griffinpion.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

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Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz & Eric Mandelbaum, Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind - PhilPapers

How do we acquire beliefs? According to the Spinozan model, merely having a thought entails believing it. Only through a further, effortful process can one reject automatically-accepted beliefs. This ...

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