This. All of this. Well done, Sheldon Richman! Strictly - TopicsExpress



          

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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