Bongo comments on Rationality quotes: September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bongo 22 September 2010 04:15:33AM *  2 points [-]

There are two ways of holding beliefs in one’s mind. Holding a belief may be experienced ... as plain awareness of a fact, without awareness of reasons to take it to be a fact. So are held most of our ordinary beliefs. ...

Other beliefs I hold because I also believe there is a good reason to hold them. ... we entertain them together with the reasons we have to accept them.

-- Dan Sperber (emphasis mine)