Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!ihlpl!rsl From: rsl@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Richard S. Latimer ) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: The nature of knowledge Message-ID: <2401@ihlpl.ATT.COM> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 17:04:37 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.2401 Posted: Fri Jul 17 17:04:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:14:43 EDT References: <58@thirdi.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 16 Keywords: truth knowledge belief absolutes certainty Summary: logic of belief, or is it illogic? In-Reply-To: your article <1537@ubc-cs.UUCP> > Can anyone suggest a good summary paper of logics which encompass the > notion of belief? If believing is an act of accepting as true without or in spite of evidence, then it is by its nature illogical (in the sense that belief does not reach conclusions via non-contradictory proesses; logic, being the art of non-contradictory thinking). An interesting question (to me) is why does anyone choose to believe, since it is cleary illogical? Any thought? [Sounds a bit like Dr. Spock of Star Trek fiction, doesn't it? If you are familiar with the character, let me assure you that I am an Earthian, complete with those wonderful feelings! :-]. -- Eudaemonia, Richard S. Latimer [(312)-416-7501, ihnp4!ihlpl!rsl]