One-belief position

Finally, the one-belief position makes belief too easy. It is relatively easy to acquire the belief that the sea contains a natural kind that also is found in lakes, falls from the sky, is potable, and so on. It is relatively easy to tag this kind water. (In so tagging it we are not, of course, assuming that the kind always has the properties it has when we come across it in lakes etc.) But what we have just described is roughly how things were before Lavoisier, and on the one-belief position, we thereby believed that the sea contains H2O. It was that easy. What is more, this belief was a rationally supported one (because the belief that the sea contains water was and they are one and the same belief). All that can be said to be hard on the one-belief position was the discovery of what belief a certain sentence in our mouths, namely, The sea contains water, expresses. It took Lavoisier s experiments to tell us which belief we expressed in certain words. It is common to criticize Stalnaker s metalinguistic account of mathematical beliefs as underselling the manifest interest of mathematical discovery. This would seem a more extreme underplaying of Lavoisier s achievement. 

Third, the obvious way of making the same-belief position palatable fails. Clearly, something important happened of an epistemic kind when Lavoisier carried out his famous experiments. Same-belief theorists might try and handle this point by saying that we believed all along that the sea contained H2O because we believed that the sea contained water, but after Lavoisier the belief that the sea contained H2O became one or more of explicit rather implicit, a belief we believed we had as well as having, a belief we were able to report in language, and so forth. But if they follow... 

The behaviour patterns ensuing when bulk monomers are diluted by solvents are very varied. The most detailed information concerns the VE. My re-examination of the results shows that, contrary to current belief, no one kinetic scheme will fit all the systems over the whole range of m. My interpretations were facilitated considerably by the availability of the dependence of c on m, which for most systems can be expressed by a linear equation of the form c = Am + B, where in some systems A is positive, in others negative. By making this substitution in the kinetic equations it becomes obvious why for most systems the external kinetic order with respect to m is greater than unity, an effect noted, but hitherto not explained convincingly. 

The characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia have historically been conceptually divided into positive and negative symptoms. At least two of these symptoms must be present for a month during the so-called active phase of illness. One can conceptualize the positive symptoms as the presence of abnormal beliefs or behaviors, whereas, in contrast, negative symptoms are a deficit or absence of normal behaviors. 

Although the risks and problems are widely discussed, it s also clear that psychoactive plants and chemicals have played a positive role in many people s lives. As our culture struggles with integrating the increasing variety and availability of these substances into its political and social structures, new educational models are clearly needed. Erowid is founded on the belief that a healthy relationship with psychoactives is one grounded in balance, where use is part of an active, intellectual, physical, and spiritual life. 

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