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(2013) New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Belief state intensity

Dale Jacquette

pp. 209-229

Propositional belief state intensity is equivalently spoken of colloquially but no less phenomenologically as the strength of a believer's belief. Belief state intensity is experienced first-hand when we know ourselves to accept a proposition's truth with greater or lesser sense of importance or urgency and priority or precedence than in the case of other beliefs.1

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137026521_11

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Jacquette, D. (2013)., Belief state intensity, in N. Nottelmann (ed.), New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-229.

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