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Direct And Indirect Belief, Curtis Brown Jun 1992

Direct And Indirect Belief, Curtis Brown

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This paper discusses that one's being in a particular belief state is nevertheless best characterized by a set of propositions, namely those one would believe in any situation in which one were in that belief state. The main purpose in this paper is to develop and defend the distinction between direct and indirect belief.