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Given your conception of what a belief is (static/non-causal mental entity, unrelated to behaviour/action).Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:58 pm Yeah, that you claim you don't claim anything is part of the curiosity. That's the same as Age more or less. He claims to not believe anything.
It's that beliefs are not necessarily related to behavior/action, and of course they're not the same thing as behavior/action. It's not that they're never related to behavior/action.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:04 pmGiven your conception of what a belief is (static/non-causal mental entity, unrelated to behaviour/action).Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:58 pm Yeah, that you claim you don't claim anything is part of the curiosity. That's the same as Age more or less. He claims to not believe anything.
I don't have any of those in my head.
If it ain't useful an it doesn't pay rent - it gets evicted.
Well, I don't know about you but I wouldn't bother with making fucking coffee in the morning if I didn't believe that I want it.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:09 pm It's that beliefs are not necessarily related to behavior/action, and of course they're not the same thing as behavior/action. It's not that they're never related to behavior/action.
Sure. That beliefs are not necessarily related to behavior/action means that one can have a belief that one doesn't act on. A lot of things that people learn in school are in this vein. For example, one might learn and thus have a belief that "Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda," but that belief never relates to any behavior/action after the person moves past the biology/marine biology course where they learned that.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:10 pmWell, I don't know about you but I wouldn't bother with making fucking coffee in the morning if I didn't believe that I want it.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:09 pm It's that beliefs are not necessarily related to behavior/action, and of course they're not the same thing as behavior/action. It's not that they're never related to behavior/action.
And I wouldn't bother investing millions in renewable energy if I didn't believe global warming is a problem.
You seem to spend almost all of your time just posting to me, though. That's not going to do you any good for your objective.
What for?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:15 pm Sure. That beliefs are not necessarily related to behavior/action means that one can have a belief that one doesn't act on.
So why waste any time acquiring such a belief?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:15 pm A lot of things that people learn in school are in this vein. For example, one might learn and thus have a belief that "Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda," but that belief never relates to any behavior/action after the person moves past the biology/marine biology course where they learned that.
That's just your confirmation bias speaking.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:16 pm You seem to spend almost all of your time just posting to me, though. That's not going to do you any good for your objective.
You can't help it. You acquire countless beliefs every day, even. About various things that happened, for example. The vast majority of those are never acted upon. Of course a lot are forgotten, too, but not all of them are.
How would you falsify that claim?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:22 pm You can't help it. You acquire countless beliefs every day, even. About various things that happened, for example. The vast majority of those are never acted upon. Of course a lot are forgotten, too, but not all of them are.
Right, but since I've been here. It seems like well over 90% of your posts are to me, where I doubt anyone else is reading all of this.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:18 pmThat's just your confirmation bias speaking.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:16 pm You seem to spend almost all of your time just posting to me, though. That's not going to do you any good for your objective.
Use that "Search" function. Do some basic arithmetic given my post-count.
There are multiple claims there. Which one?Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:23 pmHow would you falsify that claim?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:22 pm You can't help it. You acquire countless beliefs every day, even. About various things that happened, for example. The vast majority of those are never acted upon. Of course a lot are forgotten, too, but not all of them are.
"since you've been here" is precisely the confirmation bias....Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:23 pm Right, but since I've been here. It seems like well over 90% of your posts are to me, where I doubt anyone else is reading all of this.
Start with "You acquire countless beliefs every day"
That's what I was referring to. I didn't mean your total post count.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:23 pm"since you've been here" is precisely the confirmation bias....Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:23 pm Right, but since I've been here. It seems like well over 90% of your posts are to me, where I doubt anyone else is reading all of this.