Re: [lojban] Set of answers encore

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:


> Well, ideally, ask him "Is Bill the cube root of 389017 years old?" I 
> would count "Say what?" or "I have no idea what the cube root of 
> whatever you said is" and so on as effective "no"s , indicating that 
> such was not his belief.


In _Quiddities_,
Quine says that people believe what they are willing to bet money on,
so as to be able to reasonably distinguish belief from mere lip service
-- although even he concedes that "I know that my Redeemer liveth" is
not a good candidate for this kind of belief-test. It would seem that
he agrees with me that "belief" is a prototype-based category, although
he counts that bad, whereas I reckon it good.

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