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

I respectfully submit that first, it is not possible to "waft" between two
notions, statements, women, religions, traffic lanes, etc.. To waft is not to
waver. Second (or secondly, I never knew which) Eric's "(2)" is noteworthy for
a number of reasons; its intelligibiity not being one of them. (The effect of
reading too many sociobiological texts, no doubt.)

Wafting along ... singing a song ... (C#)

Walter O.
By the Cliffs of the Avalon
(and in the midst of many cruise-shipped American tourists)




Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:

> >>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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