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Will, Belief and Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

H.G. Classen
H.G. Classen
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Ottawa
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Extract

In her recent paper, “Belief, Values and the Will,” Trudy Govier raises several interesting and challenging points. Most interesting is her conclusion that it is at least logically possible for a person to believe something “simply in virtue of having taken that decision,” i.e., by fiat. In otherwords, it is possible to believe something by an act of will.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 64 - 72
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1979

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Notes

1 Dialogue, XV, 4, December 1976.

2 Republic, concluding portion of Book V. See also Theaitetos and Meno.

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