RE: virus: agnosticism again (was Site du jour (Temple of the V

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:15:57 -0700

At 08:00 PM 1/7/98 -0500, Lena Rotenberg wrote:
>Not sure I understand the above (so I act due to a prescriptive belief, but
>why would I need another descriptive belief to explain my own behavior? Or
>is it other people who are going to use a descriptive belief to explain my
>behavior?). I'm also not seeing the relevance of this distinction to the

Descriptive beliefs are mostly used to explain other people's behavior.

>so-called "axiomatic" beliefs I alluded to when mentioning the "getting out
>of bed" example. Would you mind clarifying?

I think you were talking about descriptive beliefs, the
unavoidable explanatory kind, while Robin was talking about
prescriptive beliefs, the kind that control you.

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