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标题：Believe It or Not: On Multiplying Classes of Belief-like States
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作者：James Robert Thompson
期刊名称：Studia Philosophica Estonica
印刷版ISSN：1406-0000
电子版ISSN：1736-5899
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：79-110
DOI：10.12697/spe.2016.9.1.04
语种：English
出版社：University of Tartu
其他摘要：This paper explores whether it is justified to add any new taxa concerning informational states to our psychological taxonomy. Such exploration will not lead to a straightforward decision between remaining steadfast with the taxonomic status quo and adding only one new taxon. A careful analysis of when one would be warranted in positing a new taxon for informational states will reveal similarly compelling reasons to posit all sorts of additional taxa. As an antidote to such proliferation, I suggest a reinforcement of traditional taxonomies of the mental by allowing belief and a range of extant taxa to play their requisite explanatory roles, thereby obviating the need for the postulation of any novel taxa.
关键词：folk psychology;belief;alief