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From: sasthc@unx.sas.com (Thomas Cox,R4147,6295,,3081)
Subject: Re: Is belief a choice?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:48:00 GMT
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In article vql@news.cuny.edu, bmcombrw.admna@  [Barry Williams] () writes:
> If you except the evidence of your senses to determine what is fact and what
> is not fact, and if a belief is something which you accept as fact without
> direct evidence of your senses (and I mean *direct*), then you cannot choose
> to believe a perceived-green shirt to be blue. You can choose to *behave* as
> if it were blue, but that's not the same thing.
[snip]
> OS/2 Rules,
  ^^^^^^^^^^

So you're saying your tag line is a *behavioral* statement and not a *belief*
statement? B^)

(Go ahead, flame me, I deserve it... )
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