[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Eric asks ... is there such a thing as "belief" without the content 
of the belief?

Robert counterquestions: "For example?"


When I wrote the question, I was wobbling and wafting between two
notions of belief:

(1) that it requires content (to which Donal added that it also required
an attitude toward that content); and

(2) that the word "belief" may signify the operation of some biological
cognitive or mental facility which unifies the actions and functioning
of a human being irrespective of the particular content of the belief.

Concern 1 might be the province of philosophy and concern 2 the province
of cognitive scientists. Can they be combined?

Air-conditioned,
Eric

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