Public and Personal Causations of Creditions

In this chapter, I classify the causes of the processes of believing (creditions) into two types: the causes of public processes, and the causes of personal processes. Public creditons are so characterized because they mean the same for everyone. Personal creditions are so characterized because they can have different meanings for different people. Each causal type of a credition corresponds to a kind of language. We use a language that tends to be formal and objective to express the causes of public creditions and we use a symbolic language to express the causes of the processes of personal creditions.