I believe that your distinctions instead of clarifying the concept of belief it has the opposite effect. Belief as a concept can signify:
An embodied but not articulated attitude. In this sense a belief is only known when it is acted out.
An articulated statement meant to describe the nature of a thing or to propose a certain course of action.
Although as a rationalist you tend to articulate your held beliefs and justify them within the rationalist methodology that does not qualify you, as far as I can see, to proclaim yourself the ‘one true believer’. In addition an utterance of articulated belief does not constitute a guaranty that you will act accordingly. Only real action can prove whether you truly believe what you say. For this reason we can even conceive cases that a non-articulated but acted upon belief may be more ‘real’ than an articulated but not acted upon one.
Apart from this matter of consistency and sincerity we can examine the epistemological status of a belief that is derived by the rationalist methodology in contrast to a belief arrived by means of personal experience, cultural transmission, indoctrination etc. I have to admit that I am sceptical of the statement that you have a comprehensive model of the world based on Bayesian rationality and that you use it in every day life in all occasions. I would suggest an experiment. Try to articulate your full belief system by creating an actual graph. If your whole being is rationally articulated you should be able to achieve it and then observe for consistency of the graph with your behaviour. I, for once, have tried and realised that the majority of my beliefs (in the broad sense of the term) are embodied or/and unconscious with the conscious part (the intellect) constantly observing, analysing, articulating and feeding back.
I believe that your distinctions instead of clarifying the concept of belief it has the opposite effect. Belief as a concept can signify:
An embodied but not articulated attitude. In this sense a belief is only known when it is acted out.
An articulated statement meant to describe the nature of a thing or to propose a certain course of action.
Although as a rationalist you tend to articulate your held beliefs and justify them within the rationalist methodology that does not qualify you, as far as I can see, to proclaim yourself the ‘one true believer’. In addition an utterance of articulated belief does not constitute a guaranty that you will act accordingly. Only real action can prove whether you truly believe what you say. For this reason we can even conceive cases that a non-articulated but acted upon belief may be more ‘real’ than an articulated but not acted upon one.
Apart from this matter of consistency and sincerity we can examine the epistemological status of a belief that is derived by the rationalist methodology in contrast to a belief arrived by means of personal experience, cultural transmission, indoctrination etc. I have to admit that I am sceptical of the statement that you have a comprehensive model of the world based on Bayesian rationality and that you use it in every day life in all occasions. I would suggest an experiment. Try to articulate your full belief system by creating an actual graph. If your whole being is rationally articulated you should be able to achieve it and then observe for consistency of the graph with your behaviour. I, for once, have tried and realised that the majority of my beliefs (in the broad sense of the term) are embodied or/and unconscious with the conscious part (the intellect) constantly observing, analysing, articulating and feeding back.