Interesting question. I'm not sure since psych-type experiments tend to be highly artificial and therefore of limited validity. That said, I'd be curious about examining the idea that we interpret a claim differently depending on whether we want it to be seen as true or not.https://twitter.com/7acet/status/1095467055405584384 …
Wanting something to be true (epistemic desire) sounds like an interesting factor to study. It could be studied perhaps both as a cause AND as an effect of truth evaluation.
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Yes, but that's a separate thing. A statement often needs to be interpreted before it can be given a truth condition (and therefore a truth value) but we still seem able to able to believe (as in adopt or endorse) it without specifying. ->
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I'm talking about a tendency to interpret broad, nonspecific claims (without clearly defined truth conditions) in different ways depending on whether you want them generally endorsed or not. "I don't want people to believe this phrase so I interpret it to mean something false".
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