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Is this feeling of safety a demonstration of an alief?
ParaPundit 2009
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If beliefs are conscious responses to how we think things are, aliefs are more slippery: they’re responses, also sometimes conscious, to how things seem.
This column will change your life: From alief to belief | Tamar Szabó Gendler investigation of disgust 2024
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The philosopher Tamar Gendler has coined the word “alief” to describe what’s going on in our minds here.
This column will change your life: From alief to belief | Tamar Szabó Gendler investigation of disgust 2024
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An alief is, to a reasonable approximation, an innate or habitual propensity to respond to an apparent stimulus in a particular way.
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