Although I have a bone to pick with the whole “belief in belief” business, right now I’ll concede that people actually do carry beliefs around that don’t lead to anticipated experiences. Wulky Wilkinsen being a “post-utopian” (as interpreted from my current state of knowing 0 about Wulky Wilkinsen and post-utopians) is a belief that doesn’t pay any rent at all, not even a paper that says “moneeez.”
Taboo “semantically”.
See also the example of The Dragon in the Garage, as discussed in the followup article.
Taboo’ed. See edit.
Although I have a bone to pick with the whole “belief in belief” business, right now I’ll concede that people actually do carry beliefs around that don’t lead to anticipated experiences. Wulky Wilkinsen being a “post-utopian” (as interpreted from my current state of knowing 0 about Wulky Wilkinsen and post-utopians) is a belief that doesn’t pay any rent at all, not even a paper that says “moneeez.”