The Biological Foundations of Belief
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48 The Biological Foundations of Belief liefs, on the other hand, as I defined them, can not have objective effects to counterbalance any subjective effects of positive value that they may have. Professor Moore does not deny this, but simply claims that they may have harmful effects on "the spiritual nature. " This is beside the point when the case is being argued on the biological grounds of pragmatism, for "the spiritual na- ture, " in Professor Moore's sense of the term, does n...ot count as a factor of biological significance in the struggle for existence.
It is necessary to make the distinction that I did between "scientific" and "metaphysical" beliefs or else, from the premises of the instrumentalist, it would follow that all beliefs that survive would be true, and that survival would be the test of truth. I pointed out that some beliefs, which I called "metaphysical, " in that they do not refer to the physical environment, may possess a subjective" value even if not objectively true, and may prevail and survive because of this subjective value, while false "scientific" beliefs lead in the end to bad objective results that destroy the behefs.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Cit. , p. 77.
48 The Biological Foundations of Belief liefs, on the other hand, as I defined them, can not have objective effects to counterbalance any subjective effects of positive value that they may have. Professor Moore does not deny this, but simply claims that they may have harmful effects on "the spiritual nature. " This is beside the point when the case is being argued on the biological grounds of pragmatism, for "the spiritual na- ture, " in Professor Moore's sense of the term, does n...ot count as a factor of biological significance in the struggle for existence.
It is necessary to make the distinction that I did between "scientific" and "metaphysical" beliefs or else, from the premises of the instrumentalist, it would follow that all beliefs that survive would be true, and that survival would be the test of truth. I pointed out that some beliefs, which I called "metaphysical, " in that they do not refer to the physical environment, may possess a subjective" value even if not objectively true, and may prevail and survive because of this subjective value, while false "scientific" beliefs lead in the end to bad objective results that destroy the behefs.
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