Comments on: The many forms of belief https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/the-many-forms-of-belief/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: George https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/the-many-forms-of-belief/#comment-26235 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:28:03 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=2579#comment-26235 > on complex questions of human psychology, we may need to get granular with the idea of “belief”

I believe(sorry), that the granularity would allow us to “really understand what’s happening” when it’s a granularity of how beliefs work/what they are composed of/based on. In coaching and some kinds of therapy there is a useful idea that we believe things to get something and inquiry into the profit can strengthen or weaken them.

Eg: I believe I am worthy, it doesn’t matter to me what moral philosophy it can be based upon, because having those words in my mind makes me less sad and eases me into defending myself from others. When I found I believe that I should never give anything without a fight -to protect myself because I was raised in a situation where it was needed and my therapist asked me whether it’s still useful – I instantly realized it became harmful to my relationships and miraculously stopped.

I don’t see how I can use your categorization to gain anything. It seems too close to just enumerating anything you can believe in, description without prediction. Maybe you have some use in mind that you could share?

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