Of course, treating your own belief in a proposition as evidence for that proposition seems like a rather dangerous thing to do.
Absolutely! But I think a lot of people implicitly do the equivalent when they try to be or appear consistent at all costs. The reasoning goes something like, “I believe X, therefore I must have a good reason for it and so X must be true!”
Depends, you don’t necessarily want to recompute prepositions every time they come up.
Of course, treating your own belief in a proposition as evidence for that proposition seems like a rather dangerous thing to do.
Absolutely! But I think a lot of people implicitly do the equivalent when they try to be or appear consistent at all costs. The reasoning goes something like, “I believe X, therefore I must have a good reason for it and so X must be true!”
Depends, you don’t necessarily want to recompute prepositions every time they come up.