Creer que p. Consideraciones en torno a la creencia

Abstract

This article is intended as a contribution to our understanding of the nature of belief as apropositional attitude. After contextualizing the issue, we discuss and reject some accountsof belief —as a gamble and as high (near to 1) subjective probability— and argue for theclaim that believing that p consists in merely attributing a higher subjective probability to pthan to not-p —being not-p any of p’s alternatives and all of them as a whole. Additionally,we propose that the question which a belief answers is crucial in order to determine thedegree of belief and the reasons in its favor