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Comment author: Will_Newsome 18 September 2010 11:27:11AM 0 points [-]

(I did similarly with the Litany of Gendlin in my post):

If believing something that is false gets me utility,
I desire to believe in that falsity;
If believing something that is true gets me utility,
I desire to believe in that truth;
Let me not become attached to states of belief that do not get me utility.

Comment author: jimrandomh 18 September 2010 01:04:01PM *  3 points [-]

I wrote a slightly less general version of the Litany of Gendlin on similar lines, based on the one specific case I know of where believing something can produce utility:

If I can X,
then I desire to believe I can X
If believing that I can not X would make it such that I could not X,
and it is plausible that I can X,
and there are no dire consequences for failure if I X,
then I desire to believe I can X.
It is plausible that I can X.
There are no dire consequences for failure if I X.

The last two lines may be truncated off for some values of X, but usually shouldn't be.

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