Lexicon of Arguments

 

III 84
Beliefs/Rorty: a belief that can be justified before anyone is not interesting for anybody! The traditional distinction between "rational conviction" and "belief, which is brought about by causes rather than reasons" should be abolished! In the end, the replacement of vocabularies is what counts and not of beliefs! The replacement of truth value candidates, not the determination of a truth value.
>Reason/Cause.
III 89
Belief/Rorty: a belief that could be justified to anyone would interest no one.
III 90
In the end, the replacement of vocabularies is what counts and not of beliefs! - The replacement of truth value candidates, not the determination of a truth value.
>Vocabulary/Rorty, >Description/Rorty, >Truth values.
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VI 63ff
Truth/Rorty: there is no cause of the truth of beliefs.
>Truthmakers, >Facts.
VI 144
Belief/existence/Dennett/Rorty: sometimes you do not accept the existence of an entity, but concede that we must have faith in this entity. E.g. belief in qualia and the phenomenological. >Ontology.
VI 187
Belief/Davidson: thesis: most of our beliefs must be true - beliefs are no more or less accurate representations, but they are states that are attributed to people for the purpose of explaining their behavior. - One cannot determine first the belief and then its cause, but rather the reverse. - Rorty: (like Davidson) we are interested in the beliefs of the others, because we want to be able to deal with their behavior.
VI 214
Beliefs/Davidson/Sellars/Brandom/Rorty: are imposed on us by the world, and that happens in the course of causal interactions between the program forced upon us in the educational process and the sensual organs.
>DavidsonVsMcDowell.
VI 231
Belief/Davidson/Rorty: self-attribution of experiences presuppose the self-attribution of intentional states. - That’s only possible for someone who already believes many true things of about the world. - That is about the causal link between beliefs and world.
>World/thinking, >Causal theory of knowledge.
VI 233
Belief/Davidson. we can only know the content of our intentional states if we know about their causes.
>Causality.
M. WilliamsVsDavidson: this is just the foundation thought that he rejects.
VI 426f
Belief/experience/Rorty: the spirit of the adult is more complex than that of the child. - Thus, the distinction between causation and justification of beliefs disappears. - (> Beliefs/Davidson).