By Schubert Ogden
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No belief, not even a true belief, is a necessary condition -– and so
constitutive -– of authentic existence.
The most that any belief can be is representative of authentic existence.
Still, the difference between being representative of authentic existence and being misrepresentative of it remains -– and it is an important difference.
The point is only that that it Canl"lot cannot be so important as to be in some way a necessary condition of authentic existence, and so constitutive of it.
11 December 2006