One phenomenon arising in epistemic life is allegiance to, and break from, a tradition. This phenomenon has three central features. First, individuals who adhere to a tradition seem to respond dogmatically to evidence against their tradition. Second, individuals from different traditions appear to see the same evidence differently. And third, conversion from one tradition to another appears to be different in kind from ordinary belief shift. This paper uses recent work on the nature and rationality of faith to show that these features can all emerge from individuals acting rationally—in particular, from individuals rationally having faith in the core assumptions of their traditions. One upshot is that we don't need to employ the idea of incommensurability to explain these features.

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信仰与传统

认知生活中出现的一种现象是对传统的忠诚和打破。这种现象具有三个核心特征。首先，坚守传统的个人似乎会教条地回应反对其传统的证据。其次，来自不同传统的人似乎对相同的证据有不同的看法。第三，从一种传统向另一种传统的转变似乎与普通信仰的转变有所不同。本文利用最近关于信仰的本质和合理性的研究来表明，这些特征都可以从理性行为的个体中显现出来——特别是从理性地相信其传统的核心假设的个体中显现出来。结果之一是我们不需要采用不可通约性的概念来解释这些特征。