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[MarshaV]

Hello Arlo,

By dropping off the question's context between conflicting beliefs (static patterns of value), you've changed the topic to Pierce's addressing 'belief' and 'doubt'.  I really meant to be addressing static patterns and not believing versus doubting.  I should have been clearer in my initial post.  


Marsha



Jul 26, 2012, at 9:27 AM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Marsha]
> Which direction we take depends on what? 
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> [Arlo]
> You may want to read Charles Peirce's Essay "The Fixation of Belief", it is a well-argued pragmatist (or pragmaticist, to use Peirce's slight differentiation) understanding of how beliefs come to be held, what it takes for them to recognized as "in need of reevaluation" and the various methods used for moving back from 'doubt' to 'belief'. Its available in full online here:
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> http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
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>