This. All of this. Well done, Sheldon Richman! Strictly speaking, reason doesnt permit us to choose our beliefs. If you follow the steps of an algebraic problem and see why X=4, do you have a choice about whether to believe that X=4? Of course not. To see the validity of the steps that yield the solution X=4 is to believe that X=4. Belief is not a separate step. If you grasp that an inference logically follows from factual premises and self-evident axioms, can you really elect to disbelieve it? I dont see how. If you look outside and see it is raining, are you free to decide whether to believe it is raining? Not really.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:18:00 +0000
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