That doesn't mean people don't believe the things they say when they signal team membership. They DO believe them. It's just that the "belief" is the rush of good feeling from knowing that you have a team.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Citations? I'm not a specialist in the philosophy of mind, but I'm petty sure that no philosophers of mind or cognitive scientists accept this account of belief.
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Replying to @MetaHumean
Basically the Cultural Cognition theory. http://www.culturalcognition.net/
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Ok, I'm on board with a lot of this, but i think it's a mistake to say that a positive emotional state in social contexts is just what belief is. That's not what belief IS, that's what belief DOES. Belief is something like stable high credence.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
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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Replying to @MetaHumean @Noahpinion
...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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Replying to @MetaHumean
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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Replying to @Noahpinion
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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