Ersatz Belief and Real Belief

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (1):39-53 (2019)
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Philosophers have given much attention to belief and knowledge. Here I introduce an epistemic category close to but different from belief, that I call ‘ersatz’belief. Recognition of this category refines our catalogue of epistemic attitudes in an important way.

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10.5840/symposion2019613

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