Let go of your belief that “beliefs” are solid, durable, distinct, continuous, well-defined entities. It is the cause of much misery.pic.twitter.com/fzUP9xNP2J
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Let go of your belief that “beliefs” are solid, durable, distinct, continuous, well-defined entities. It is the cause of much misery.pic.twitter.com/fzUP9xNP2J
Is this letting go of belief in belief, or just letting go of two really bad theories of belief?
It appears to me that if you investigate it, the category becomes increasingly nebulous. The point is not that “beliefs don’t exist” but that what counts as a belief, and what counts as having a belief, is inherently vague.
Sure. Not fully determined, contextually dependent, but this applies to basically everything, yeah? I suppose there are unique harms in not realising this in the case of belief...
I think there's something to be said about a sort of contextualism for understanding a bit more what goes on in the nebulosity problem. Things have "firmer" less nebulous meanings in a specific goal oriented context, up to the point where more detail is irrelevant (cont)
When we start to analyse a word like "belief", we have a tendency to forget the contexts where we were using it, shifting from whatever context that was to a "philosophical" context, while forgetting that we are analysing it in that context. (cont)
But since the meaning of what, say, a belief is is contextual, and we've forgotten the context, implicitly looking for an absolute context, we don't have a goal to orient our use towards and the entire meaning becomes particularly mushy and nebulous
I think meditation can sometimes fall into the absolute context trap too...
Yes, I think all parts of this are exactly correct!
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