What is it about?
If we take seriously the idea that what we know is a result of experience and choice, there are inevitably differences in the beliefs people hold. Beliefs are also partly social and partly personal which makes them resistant to change.
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Why is it important?
The social fabric is at present stretched by firmly help beliefs. Some beliefs are ways of interpreting the world and as such other people are free to hold other interpretations. If we understand that people's interpretations of experience depend on their history, then we are morally bound to recognise differences in belief.
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This page is a summary of: Systems and Beliefs, Foundations of Science, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9411-5.
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