A forlorn plaster tree stump, painted the color of feces and lighted with a few bare bulbs, comments on the evils of consumerism and the disaster of ecological neglect, and a bloody severed shark fin titled "everyone's talking about Jesus" is meant to stand as a token of irrational belief linked to fear.
The symbol of the mandala is synonymous with a highly-dense, plaited circular symbol that carries spiritual and ritualistic significance as a token of Buddhist and Hindu beliefs.
In its purest and most straightforward form, reliabilism holds that the status of a token belief as justified or unjustified depends upon whether or not the psychological process which gives rise to the belief is a reliable one, i.e., one that is truth-conducive.
Rather, we must be speaking of a particular token belief, in this case Oscar's belief on a particular occasion that water is wet.
This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile". Bitcoin is a crypto-currency - a system of digitally created and traded tokens to which value is assigned.
When you and I both entertain the belief that Fodor advocates a Language of Thought, one type of mental state is entertained, but two tokens of that type (your belief state and my belief state).
In one way of speaking, the belief just is the fact or proposition represented, or the particular stored token of that fact or proposition; in another way of speaking, the more standard in philosophical discussion, the belief is the state of having such a fact or representation stored.
In these circumstances, belief in God is not caused by one identifiable earlier token of the same type.
"A Token of My Extreme" satirizes Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, as well as new age beliefs and the sexual revolution.
Ignoring the commonly-held belief of the time that all or most spiders were poisonous; as a token of faith, Conrad nevertheless drank the wine with the spider in it.
