In their present form, beliefs in witchcraft are not "traditional" – changes since earlier times are obvious.
"I am interested in how people form beliefs that are relevant to economics," says Mr Benabou.
The solution explains why we are psychologically compelled to form beliefs about future effects and past causes, but it does not justify those beliefs logically.
Stories are the means by which people make sense of the world, learn values, form beliefs, and give shape to their lives.
One can hardly imagine why Quine would disagree: one ought not to form beliefs illogically.
They do not have a license to form beliefs beyond their evidence.
Cognitions are moments of consciousness, not species of belief, but we may say that cognitions form beliefs in forming dispositions and that veridical cognitions form true beliefs.
The first is that experiences are acquisitions of beliefs; the second is that they are dispositions to form beliefs; the third is that they are grounds of dispositions to form beliefs.
So when we form beliefs about what is going on in the world, they are largely accurate ones.
