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In this paper an attempt is made to clarify the fairly old idea of an ethics of belief and to show that at least one plausible version of such an ethics is inescapable.
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Michalos, A.C. (1976). The Morality of Cognitive Decision-Making. In: Brand, M., Walton, D. (eds) Action Theory. Synthese Library, vol 97. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9074-2_19
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