What Does Belief Have to Do with Truth?

Philosophy 93 (4):557-570 (2018)
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Abstract

I argue that the widely-held view that belief aims at the truth is false. I acknowledge that there is an important connection between truth and belief but propose a new way of interpreting that connection. On the account I put forth, evidence of truth constrains belief without furnishing an aim for belief.

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Iskra Fileva
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