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| - | :''[[seeing is believing]]'' | + | '''Moore's paradox''' concerns the apparent absurdity involved in asserting a first-person present-tense sentence such as, "It's raining but I don't believe that it is raining" or "It's raining but I believe that it is not raining." The first author to note this apparent absurdity was [[G.E. Moore]]. |
| - | '''Belief''' is the psychological state in which an individual is convinced of the [[truth]] of a [[proposition]]. Like the related concepts [[truth]], [[knowledge]], and [[wisdom]], there is no precise definition of belief on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of belief. | + | |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | * [[superficial charm|Charm]] | + | == See also == |
| - | * [[Cognitive dissonance]] | + | * [[Belief]] |
| - | * [[Collective belief]] | + | * [[Consistency]] |
| - | * [[Sam Harris (author)|Conversational intolerance (Sam Harris)]] | + | * [[Doublethink]] |
| - | * [[Culture-specific syndrome]] | + | |
| - | * [[Delusion]] | + | |
| * [[Doxastic logic]] | * [[Doxastic logic]] | ||
| - | * [[Evil eye]] | + | * [[Epistemology]] |
| - | * [[Expectation]] | + | * [[Contradiction]] |
| - | * [[Faith]] | + | * [[Irrationality]] |
| - | * [[Folk psychology]] | + | * [[List of paradoxes]] |
| - | * [[Gettier problem]] | + | * [[Philosophy of Mind]] |
| - | * [[Idea]] | + | * [[Rationality]] |
| - | * [[Life stance]] | + | * [[Self-knowledge (psychology)]] |
| - | * [[Moore's paradox]] | + | |
| - | * [[Nocebo]] | + | |
| - | * [[Observer-expectancy effect]] | + | |
| - | * [[Opinion]] | + | |
| - | * [[Placebo]] | + | |
| - | * [[Propositional attitude]] | + | |
| - | * [[Propositional knowledge]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychosomatic illness]] | + | |
| - | * [[Religion]] | + | |
| * [[Self-deception]] | * [[Self-deception]] | ||
| - | * [[Spell (paranormal)]] | ||
| - | * [[Spirituality]] | ||
| - | * [[Subject-expectancy effect]] | ||
| - | * [[Sugar pill]] | ||
| - | * [[Suggestibility]] | ||
| - | * [[Suggestion]] | ||
| - | * [[Subjective validation]] | ||
| - | * [[Truth]] | ||
| - | * [[Thomas theorem]] | ||
| - | * [[Ultimate importance]] | ||
| - | * [[Unbelieving]] | ||
| - | * [[Unintended consequence]] | ||
| - | * [[Value (personal and cultural)]] | ||
| - | * [[List of sociology topics]] | ||
| - | * [[Sociology]] | ||
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Moore's paradox concerns the apparent absurdity involved in asserting a first-person present-tense sentence such as, "It's raining but I don't believe that it is raining" or "It's raining but I believe that it is not raining." The first author to note this apparent absurdity was G.E. Moore.
See also
- Belief
- Consistency
- Doublethink
- Doxastic logic
- Epistemology
- Contradiction
- Irrationality
- List of paradoxes
- Philosophy of Mind
- Rationality
- Self-knowledge (psychology)
- Self-deception
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