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Letters
Letters
Logic & Fallacies • Off the Rails Again • Theodicy Continues • Rolling Back the Digital Tide • Knowing Foucault Himself • Rubbishing Rubbish • Cicero Civilises Characteristically • Pluralism vs French Universalism
Logic & Fallacies
Dear Editor: Thanks to Kevin Currie-Knight for a well written, well argued piece in 154, ‘Humans, the Believing Animals’… which confirms my own bias. Less flippantly, I think he is correct to emphasise the dominant role of belief in our sense of self, and our comfort in that.
Beliefs and attitudes can be changed, and in practice do continuously change throughout our lives. There may be a sense of permanence about them at any instant of time, even though our beliefs and attitudes are continually adjusting in some, usually pretty small, degree as a result of engagement with other people. Mostly, we are not especially aware of such changes, considering them to be clarifications, or refinements of our pre-existing belief.
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