I mean, besides a rock band.
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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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Replying to @MetaHumean @Noahpinion
"Representational" refers to a kind of mental state that serves to represent the world as being a certain way. Beliefs are the paradigmatic representational states. Compare desires. If I desire that I have an ice cream cone, but see that I don't have one, I'm not inclined to...
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Replying to @MetaHumean
So beliefs are representational states, and representational states are beliefs??? Er...
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Not all representational states are beliefs. Thinking that something is slightly more likely than not is a rep state, but it's not a belief. If I've got a deck of cards, I'll be inclined to think that the top card isn't a face card, but that's not something I fully believe
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Replying to @MetaHumean
Are you defining "belief" as something you'd be willing to act (i.e. bet) on?
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What does "representational" mean?
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