I hold the occurrent belief that I'm writing this sentence
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I hold the occurrent belief that I'm writing this sentence
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One could imagine, for example, that an occurrent belief (e.g. that I'm allergic to apples) would trigger a dispositional desire (not to get an allergic crisis).
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In such a case, my belief that the person I will meet is named Robert Barchi is clearly occurrent.
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the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents, which were brought him cum primis, by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.
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