While doubt may involve encountering disconfirming evidence for a held belief—and it’s proper to immediately update on the doubt-creating evidence and thereby factor the expected result of further inquiry into your belief-state, -
Doubt itself is a pointer to a location of yet-unseen evidence. To a specific line of inquiry that may or may not disconfirm the held belief in question.
The inverse, or perhaps a generalization to positive and negative cases, is then Suspicion.
Suspicion points to locations of likely belief-creating or belief-modifying evidence.
Edit: meditating on what this post points to—finding in myself instances of the sensation of rational-doubt, and dwelling on them—proved useful.
I take away:
While doubt may involve encountering disconfirming evidence for a held belief—and it’s proper to immediately update on the doubt-creating evidence and thereby factor the expected result of further inquiry into your belief-state, -
Doubt itself is a pointer to a location of yet-unseen evidence. To a specific line of inquiry that may or may not disconfirm the held belief in question.
The inverse, or perhaps a generalization to positive and negative cases, is then Suspicion.
Suspicion points to locations of likely belief-creating or belief-modifying evidence.
Edit: meditating on what this post points to—finding in myself instances of the sensation of rational-doubt, and dwelling on them—proved useful.