BELIEF

BELIEF Name: RAMESH L.

Reg .No.09034
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a
proposition to be true .the terms belief is differently in philosophy
.epistemology is the philosophical study and of knowledge and belief
.the primary problem in epistemology is to understand exactly what is
needed in order to have true knowledge .the relationship between
belief and knowledge is that a belief is knowledge if the belief is
true ,and if the believer has the justification for accepting it is
true .as a false belief is not considered as a true knowledge ,even if
is so serous also.
The concept of belief presumes a subject and an object of belief so,
like other propositional attitudes, belief implies the existence of
mental states and intentionality ,both which are debated topics
.beliefs are sometimes divided into core beliefs and dispositional
beliefs .a belief is a mental state has been seen as contentious
.while some philosophers have argued that beliefs are represented in
the mind as sentence – like constructs others have gone as so for as
arguing that there is no consistent or coherent so us of the conceit
belief ha s to be rejected .
The philosopher Lynne rudder baker has outlined four main contemporary
approaches to belief in her book saving belief: Our common sense
understanding of belief is correct sometime called mental sentence
theory ,in this belief exists as coherent entities and the way for
scientific endeavor .our common understanding of belief may not be
wholly correct but is close enough to make some useful predictions
.our common sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong and will
be completely suppressed by a radically different theory that will
have no use for the concept of belief .our common sense understanding
of belief ids entirely wrong ;however ,treating people animals and
even a computers as if they had beliefs is often a strategy.
People may adopt the beliefs of a charismatic leader ,even I those
beliefs fly in the face of all previous and produce actions that are
clearly not in their own self interest .the primary thirst of the
advertising industry Is that repetition forms of beliefs as do
associations of beliefs with image of sex ,love ,other strong positive
emotions. however even educated people ,well aware of this process by
which the belief forms, still strongly cling to their beliefs ,and act
on those beliefs even against their own self interest .This means that
people should evolve as they gain new experiences .