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Does Belief Aim (Only) at the Truth?
It is common to hear talk of the aim of belief and to find philosophers appealing to that aim for numerous explanatory purposes. What belief’s aim explains depends, of course, on what that aim is. Many hold that it is somehow related to truth, but there are various ways in which one might specify belief’s aim using the notion of truth. In this paper, by considering whether they can account for ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0045-5091,1911-0820
DOI: 10.1353/cjp.2011.0000