Belief 'In' and Belief 'That'
Epistemologists have not usually had much to say about believing in', though ever since Plato's time they have been interested in believing that'. Students of religion, on the other hand, have been greatly concerned with belief in', and many of them, I think, would maintain th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1965]
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Religious studies
Year: 1965, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-27 |
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| Summary: | Epistemologists have not usually had much to say about believing in', though ever since Plato's time they have been interested in believing that'. Students of religion, on the other hand, have been greatly concerned with belief in', and many of them, I think, would maintain that it is something quite different from belief that'. Surely belief in' is an attitude to a person, whether human or divine, while belief that' is just an attitude to a proposition? Could any difference be more obvious than this? And if we over-look it, shall we not be led into a quite mistaken analysis of religious belief, at any rate if it is religious belief of the theistic sort? On this view belief in' is not a propositional attitude at all. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritisiert in "On Believing (1966)"
Kritisiert in "Faith-In' and In-Faith - Reply to Professor H. H. Price (1967)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002304 |