Adaptive misbelief or judicious pragmatic acceptance?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (6):520 (2009)
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This commentary highlights the distinction between belief and pragmatic acceptance, and asks whether the positive illusions discussed in section 13 of the target article may be judicious pragmatic acceptances rather than adaptive misbeliefs. I discuss the characteristics of pragmatic acceptance and make suggestions about how to determine whether positive illusions are attitudes of this type

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Belief and acceptance.L. Jonathan Cohen - 1989 - Mind 98 (391):367-389.
Believing, holding true, and accepting.Pascal Engel - 1998 - Philosophical Explorations 1 (2):140 – 151.

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