Title
Document Type
Pre-Print
Publication Date
1987
Abstract
What we believe depends on more than the purely intrinsic facts about us: facts about our environment or context also help determine the contents of our beliefs.1 The observation has led several writers to hope that beliefs can be divided, as it were, into two components: a "core" that depends only on the individual's intrinsic properties; and a periphery that depends on the individual's context, including his or her history, environment, and linguistic community.
Identifier
10.1111/j.1475-4975.1987.tb00546.x
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Repository Citation
Brown, C. (1987). What is a belief state? Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 10(1), 357-378. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1987.tb00546.x
Publication Information
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
Comments
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