This sounds very like she enjoys the feeling of doublethink. Applying aesthetics to one’s own feelings. I suspect this is behind New Age as a grab-bag people tend to give credence to all of, or crank magnetism—people assess beliefs by how it feels to profess them.
Whether this is “real” belief depends then on what you call “belief”. It’s a real something, I think, and “belief” is not an invalid word for them to use for it, but we might benefit from separate ones for “I like this belief” (which I mean in a sense stronger than “I think I should believe”) and “this belief pays off in expected experiences.” It may be covered by “belief in belief”, but I have a nagging feeling that it’s a bit stronger.
This sounds very like she enjoys the feeling of doublethink. Applying aesthetics to one’s own feelings. I suspect this is behind New Age as a grab-bag people tend to give credence to all of, or crank magnetism—people assess beliefs by how it feels to profess them.
Whether this is “real” belief depends then on what you call “belief”. It’s a real something, I think, and “belief” is not an invalid word for them to use for it, but we might benefit from separate ones for “I like this belief” (which I mean in a sense stronger than “I think I should believe”) and “this belief pays off in expected experiences.” It may be covered by “belief in belief”, but I have a nagging feeling that it’s a bit stronger.