[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest (editing) and Missouri)
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:46 +0900
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> There may be something conceptually odd about it but there's also something
> unsatisfying about a merely schematic account of what might be going on
> here; schematic insofar as neither a context for or examples of one's saying
> 'I no longer believe what I thought I believed,' are given. (One small
> point: one may no longer believe P—which one formerly thought one
> believed—without believing not-P; one may say—and this seems to me a fairly
> common experience—that one thought one believed P, but now one doesn't know
> what to believe, or what one believes.)
Could we conclude that, confronted with the question, "Do you believe in
God?" Walter's philosopher sees only two alternatives: faith or atheism. He
does not consider either remaining agnostic or "Not in your God" as possible
answers?
John
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