I mean that it’s used to anticipate experiences, like when you believe that you have a dragon in your garage, expect its breath to keep the house toasty and therefore turn off the heater in advance.
When something is accepted as true, then observations to the contrary become surprising. So, if I’m surprised to find it raining out, then I’d assumed it was going to be sunny.
To use it as an assumption when reasoning about the world. See Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences).
Just listened to that about 10 minutes ago. Good sequence. When you say “assumption”, I hear “a thing that is accepted to be true”.
What changes in cognition when something is accepted as true?
I mean that it’s used to anticipate experiences, like when you believe that you have a dragon in your garage, expect its breath to keep the house toasty and therefore turn off the heater in advance.
When something is accepted as true, then observations to the contrary become surprising. So, if I’m surprised to find it raining out, then I’d assumed it was going to be sunny.