Therefore rational beliefs are contagious, among honest folk who believe each other to be honest. And it’s why a claim that your beliefs are not contagious—that you believe for private reasons which are not transmissible—is so suspicious. If your beliefs are entangled with reality, they should be contagious among honest folk.
I don’t get this inference. seems like the belief itself is the evidence—and you entangle your friend with the object of your belief just by telling them your belief—regardless if you can explain the reasons? (private beliefs seem to me suspicious on other grounds)
If your friend trusts that you arrived at your belief through rational means, you are correct. But often when someone can’t give a reason, it’s because there is no good reason. Hence “suspicious”.
I don’t get this inference. seems like the belief itself is the evidence—and you entangle your friend with the object of your belief just by telling them your belief—regardless if you can explain the reasons? (private beliefs seem to me suspicious on other grounds)
If your friend trusts that you arrived at your belief through rational means, you are correct. But often when someone can’t give a reason, it’s because there is no good reason. Hence “suspicious”.