“If belief, therefore, were a simple act of the thought, without any peculiar manner of conception, or the addition of a force and vivacity, it must infallibly destroy itself, and in every case terminate in a total suspended of judgment.” Hume, Treatise (123/184)
Surely we must ground belief in some kind of rational principle so that belief does not self-destruct. But wouldn’t this very principle be believed because of our inability to go beyond causal inference? Whether we take belief at its purest instance, or form an abstract principle, belief seems hard to believe. The aim of this presentation/essay is to show that this does not have to be the case, and that the principle of belief is not rational, but the transcendental moment/experience of belief in general. It will be adapted from my Rationalists & Empiricists essay on Hume.
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