Lucas Fernandes

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As I have already pointed out, the modern notion of belief as propositional is not what is intended here: belief is not holding a proposition, but a disposition, an openness to trust, in order that one may experience, and therefore know. Conviction will come, if it comes at all, from experience – never from trading propositions: this is credo as cor do (‘I give my heart’).
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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