Belief

 


 

Requisites (Gunnar Myrdal)
Requisites (Vincent E. Barry and Douglas J. Soccio)

 


 

Requisites

[1969] Gunnar Myrdal, Objectivity in Social Research
“A person’s beliefs pretend knowledge. As a consequence, it should always be possible to judge the correctness of beliefs by applying the criterion of whether they are true or false.” (p. 15)
“People’s beliefs ... can be directly judged by the objective criteria of correctness and completeness.” (p. 28)

[1988, Third Edition] Vincent E. Barry and Douglas J. Soccio, Practical Logic, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
“Belief refers to a person’s attitude toward a particular statement.”
“Since knowledge implies belief, where there is no belief, there can be no claim to knowledge.”
“At the same time, belief is not sufficient for knowledge."
"Knowledge implies something else - truth.”
(Chapter 6, pp. 121-122)

 


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