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单词 doxastic
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Definition of doxastic in English:

doxastic

adjective dɒkˈsastɪk
Philosophy
  • Relating to an individual's beliefs.

    doxastic worlds
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Furthermore, also doxastic collective intentionality can in some cases perform the task of institution-maintenance and in some cases even the task of institution creation.
    • Doxastic logic is a modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about beliefs.
    • According to doxastic voluntarism, believing and disbelieving are choices that are up to us to make.
    • As we saw, Goldman is skeptical about the prospects of identifying and adequately formulating regulative doxastic principles.
    • But the two kinds of doubt invoke quite different doxastic attitudes.
    • Collective entities are obviously ‘social’ in an important way; and if it is granted that such entities are bearers of beliefs and other doxastic states, shouldn't these collective states be an important target for social epistemology?
    • And for science to produce a hypothesis (which is itself a doxastic state) that claims that doxastic states don't exist would be illogical and self-defeating.
    • In general, doxastic, metaphysical, modal, semantic, or syntactic expressions are not epistemic.
    • A third common line of objection to doxastic theories is that we may sometimes base beliefs on reasons of which we are unaware.
    • No matter how self-evidently correct or right-headed the project may appear, epistemic propriety demands that doxastic commitment be delayed, one way or another, until there is data.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek doxastikos 'conjectural', from doxazein 'to conjecture'.

 
 
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