Believing on Authority

Wittgenstein on Believing

The outlines of Wittgenstein’s conception of propositions can be sketched by means of the following four or five points. First, in 1913 Wittgenstein focuses on whatever it is that judgments have in common that allows them to depict a sense and express a thought. In so doing Wittgenstein is pressing to find a sense or proposition – what is believed in -of concern to logic and independent of psyc...

Believing on the Basis of the Evidence

Believing Conjunctions

I shall argue in this paper that it should.1 To begin with, I shall defend (CP) against several criticisms that have been launched against it. These criticisms are of two kinds, which I shall call internal and external respectively. Internal objections are that a theory that includes (CP) fails to give an account of what it is rational to believe that is satisfactory by its own standards. In pa...

Pain resource nurses: believing the patients, and believing in themselves.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience of being a pain resource nurse (PRN), discuss the influence of the PRN's role on colleagues and patient care, and explore barriers to the PRN role. DESIGN Qualitative, exploratory. SETTING A Veterans Administration hospital in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 12 nurses who received advanced training in pain assessment and management atte...

Thallium 201 myocardial imaging. Seeing is believing--believing what?