Swinburne, Richard Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928392-7
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283927.003.0001
 

Richard Swinburne
Propositional belief is belief that some proposition is more probable than some alternative proposition (normally, its negation). Beliefs are involuntary responses to experiences of the world or apparent truths of reason, or to evidence in the form of other propositions which seem to make the belief probable. The strengths of different beliefs and purposes determine which actions we perform in order to achieve our purposes.
Keywords: action, Hume, purpose, Tertullian
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283927.003.0001
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