Conversation Topic 08: Beliefs, Desires, and Truth

I am away from my blog for a couple of weeks. This is an experiment in posting some conversation topics while I am gone.

The two questions to answer relevant to the statement below is are:

• Is it true?

• Is it important?

(8) Beliefs (e.g., a 'Belief that P' for some proposition P) are capable of being true or false, depending on whether the proposition P is true or false.

Desires (e.g., a 'desire that P' for some proposition P) are not capable of being true or false. However, they are capable of being fulfilled or thwarted depending on whether the proposition P is true or false.