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Article
Believing the Impossible
Synthese
  • Curtis Brown, Trinity University
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
1-1-1991
Disciplines
Abstract

This article offers an interpretation of Ruth Barcan Marcus's view that just as we cannot know what is false, we cannot believe what is impossible, followed by an argument that if this defense succeeded, it would justify rejecting many of out ordinary belief ascriptions. Although, this defense does not succeed there is something correct and important in Marcus's argument.

Identifier
10.1007/BF00413502
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Citation Information
Brown, C. (1991). Believing the impossible. Synthese, 89(3), 353-364. doi:10.1007/BF00413502