"Competitive wokeness", like "virtue signaling" and "preference falsification", seems to be something people on the right say in order to pretend that people on the left don't really believe what they claim to believe.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1050424810591936512 …
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It's a dispositional mental state. Part of the dispositions that characterize the mental state might be to have certain emotions in certain contexts, but don't confuse the cause and the effect. Saying that belief is a positive emotion in social contexts is like...
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...saying that water is dissolving salt. Same kind of category error. Belief is representational, and a purely affective account of belief can't account for the representational nature of belief.
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None of the words you've said in response to my question makes any sense to me. "Dispositional mental state". "Representational". These mean nothing to me.
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Sorry, using philosophy jargon... Dispositional mental state means a metal state (state of your mind) that is individuated by its causal functional (stimulus-response) profile.
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What does that mean?
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Trait vs state
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