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Ophelia Benson counters a common and deeply misleading equivocation (one I counter often, but most specifically addressed here and here): Belief is about truth; it equates to”it is true that X”. It is thus cognitive rather than emotive. It seems odd to me to ask if it would be better to believe the things I [...]
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Disambiguating Belief
August 8th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Disambiguating Faith: Not All Beliefs Held Without Certainty Are Faith Beliefs
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke David Crowther raises a crucial point of contention: What I really want to do, is get back to the question of whether atheism is necessarily a “faith position”. If we generalize the term “faith” to mean believing or relying on something without absolute proof, than I think it is true to say that every possible [...]
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No Comments »Beliefs Have Consequences, Including Religious Ones
September 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke ZJ has another predictably perfect video brilliant in unpredictably sharp ways: There are those who say that religious beliefs are not at the root of certain behaviors that appear to be caused by religion. Even when the actions of the religious are completely in line with their beliefs, even when they openly proclaim that they [...]
Posted in Atheism, Religion, Religious Extremism, Videos Tags: Africa, African Witch Hunts, Behavior, Beliefs, Determinism, Fatalism, Religious Violence, Witches Witch Hunts No Comments »Are Certain Beliefs and Desires The Same Things?
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Eric Schwitzgebel makes an interesting case that in some cases believing and desiring may be the same thing, or at least close enough to each other as to be inseparable from each other: In the usual taxonomy of mental states (usual, that is, among contemporary analytic philosophers of mind) belief is one thing, desire quite [...]
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