Comments on: Suspending Belief http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/suspending-belief/ Trance Music, Philosophy and Politics. The official homepage of philosopher artist: Illusive Mind. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Anonymous http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/suspending-belief/#comment-16 Anonymous Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:07:00 +0000 http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/suspending-belief/#comment-16 Alston distinguishes between voluntarily accepting a proposition and finding oneself believing it, which is a largely involuntary process. I think what you're distinguishing from belief may well be what he's calling acceptance. I'm a bit skeptical of the eastern origins of western belief (and vice versa). It may well be that these are longstanding western ideas that we have no record of, and that they eventually trace back to India or somewhere else (or the two have a common ancester), but this period of Greek philosophy was quite fruitful, and I wouldn't put it past them to have come up with it independently.  <A></A><A></A>Puported by<A><B> </B></A><a HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmt.ektopos.com%2Fparablemania" TITLE="parableman at gmail dot com" rel="nofollow">Jeremy Pierce</A> Alston distinguishes between voluntarily accepting a proposition and finding oneself believing it, which is a largely involuntary process. I think what you’re distinguishing from belief may well be what he’s calling acceptance.

I’m a bit skeptical of the eastern origins of western belief (and vice versa). It may well be that these are longstanding western ideas that we have no record of, and that they eventually trace back to India or somewhere else (or the two have a common ancester), but this period of Greek philosophy was quite fruitful, and I wouldn’t put it past them to have come up with it independently. 

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