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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Replying to @MetaHumean @Noahpinion
I think Humean is trying to say that beliefs often involve some kind of expectation or prediction about the future? Beliefs can generate immediate positive feelings, but the feeling itself is an effect of the belief, and is not equivalent to the belief?
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Replying to @Roflsaurus16 @MetaHumean
That is the idea of "belief" we teach in econ class. Belief = what you'd bet on.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @MetaHumean
How would you classify the slogan "No human being is illegal", for example?
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Replying to @Roflsaurus16 @MetaHumean
I'd say that's a thing people believe deeply, but most would struggle to explain what it means.
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Similarly, I think Humean's belief that belief is not affective is affective.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @MetaHumean
So is your belief that Humean's belief that belief is not affective also affective? ;)
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Probably, since I don't know how I could bet on it.
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