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doxastic — /dok sasˈtik/ (philosophy) adjective Of or relating to belief noun The branch of logic concerned with belief ORIGIN: Gr doxastikos conjectural … Useful english dictionary
Doxastic logic — is a modal logic concerned with reasoning about beliefs. The term doxastic derives from the ancient Greek δόξα, doxa, which means belief. Typically, a doxastic logic uses Bx to mean It is believed that x is the case, and the set denotes a set of… … Wikipedia
Doxastic attitudes — Doxastic Pertaining to belief. Alternatively, also pertaining to states sufficiently like beliefs (thoughts, judgments, opinions, desires, wishes, fears). Evidentialism is generally applied to justified beliefs distinct from unjustified beliefs… … Wikipedia
doxastic — [dɒk sastɪk] adjective Philosophy relating to an individual s beliefs. Origin C18: from Gk doxastikos conjectural … English new terms dictionary
doxastic — a. pertaining to opinion … Dictionary of difficult words
doxastic logic — noun the modal logic of belief and disbelief • Hypernyms: ↑modal logic … Useful english dictionary
Modal logic — is a type of formal logic that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality. Modals words that express modalities qualify a statement. For example, the statement John is happy might be qualified by… … Wikipedia
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reason — Within philosophy reason refers to (1) a faculty or ability in virtue of which one makes appropriate doxastic judgements that have a high likelihood of approximating to truth; (2) a rational ground for a belief (that is, I believe p for the… … Christian Philosophy
Moore's paradox — concerns the putative absurdity involved in asserting a first person present tense sentence such as It s raining but I don t believe that it is raining or It s raining but I believe that it is not raining . The first author to note this apparent… … Wikipedia
