TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints402
UR  - http://cogprints.org/402/
A1  - Sperber, Dan
Y1  - 1997///
N2  - Humans have two kinds of beliefs, intuitive beliefs and reflective beliefs. Intuitive beliefs are a most fundamental category of cognition, defined in the architecture of the mind. They are formulated in an intuitive mental lexicon. Humans are also capable of entertaining an indefinite variety of higher-order or "reflective" propositional attitudes, many of which are of a credal sort. Reasons to hold "reflective beliefs" are provided by other beliefs that describe the source of the reflective belief as reliable, or that provide explicit arguments in favour of the reflective belief. The mental lexicon of reflective beliefs includes not only intuitive, but also reflective concepts.
KW  - belief
KW  -  rationality
KW  -  metarepresentation
KW  -  cognition
KW  -  propositional attitude
KW  -  religious beliefs
KW  -  scientific beliefs
KW  -  intuition
KW  -  reflection
KW  -  concepts
TI  - Intuitive and reflective beliefs
SP  - 67
AV  - public
EP  - 83
ER  -

<script src="//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js"></script>