> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 16 topics, 34 evergreens, 1 source</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[belief]]</s> - Belief is good - [[Belief can motivate adaptation]] - [[Belief helps us push through hardship]] - debatably [[A conversion experience can help us reshape our sense of self]] - but [[Humans are addicted to believing]] - this has lead to - [[Religion promotes high social control]] - [[Strong enough logic becomes belief]] > [!wikipedia]+ [belief](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief) > > A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true. > > In:: [[epistemology]], > philosophers use the term "belief" to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false. To believe something is to take it to be true; for instance, to believe that snow is white is comparable to accepting the truth of the proposition "snow is white". However, holding a belief does not require active introspection. > > Beliefs are the subject of various important philosophical debates. Notable examples include: "What is the rational way to revise one's beliefs when presented with various sorts of evidence?," "Is the content of our beliefs entirely determined by our mental states, or do the relevant facts have any bearing on our beliefs (e.g. if I believe that I'm holding a glass of water, is the non-mental fact that water is H2O part of the content of that belief)?," "How fine-grained or coarse-grained are our beliefs?," and "Must it be possible for a belief to be expressible in language, or are there non-linguistic beliefs?". > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[Atheists don't lack belief they lack religious belief]] > - [[Belief can motivate dysfunction]] > - [[Belief reinforces your worldview]] > - [[Faith can be a useful tool for grounding yourself]] > - [[God is the human capacity to believe]] > - [[Human's have an inability to admit that they are wrong]] > - [[Religion as a rational bid for supernatural reward]] > - [[Social order is built off of a shared belief in an imagined reality]] > - [[There is a difference between belief of ignorance and belief of understanding]] > - [[What is the origin of religion]] > - [[Why I only callout Christianity]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[video - The Pope's Astronomer]] > - [[topics]] > - [[philosophy]] > - [[Animism]] > - [[Naturism]] > - [[belief systems]] > - [[cognitive dissonance]] > - [[confidence]] > - [[faith]] > - [[justified belief]] > - [[knowledge]] > - [[religious belief]] > - [[skepticism]] > - [[supply-side economics]] > - [[self]] > - [[socialization]] > - [[Biological processes can only give context to behavior not predict it]] > - [[Cultural evolution is not confined to the slow process of genetic evolution]] > - [[Evangelicalism has commodified faith for profit]] > - [[Faith is an abstraction of cognitive dissonance]] > - [[How to develop a meditation practice]] > - [[Humans are primarily irrational, illogical, emotional beings]] > - [[Humans have decided to reject an unjust world]] > - [[Karma is an open ended system of belief]] > - [[My Deconstruction journey]] > - [[My worldview is not about conversion it is about acceptance]] > - [[Searching for THE answer is dangerous]] > - [[The biblical christian God is evil and does not deserve to be worshipped]] > - [[The materialistic view of religions examines why humans invented and clung to religion]] > - [[There is no direct relation between physical strength and social power]] > - [[We need equity of access not equality of opportunity]] > - [[What maintains our social order]] > - [[Why I don't believe in simulation theory]] #### Discussion Y-axis: [[Belief is productive]] <--> [[Belief is detrimental]] X-axis: [[On a personal level]] <--> [[On a societal level]] ![[Pasted image 20220112210513.png]] %% ```juggl workspace: BeliefMOC ``` %%