From: "Wallace Polsom" <termite-AT-worker.com>
Subject: RE: BHA: Santa, God, kneeling
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 07:59:22 -0600


Hi Tobin,

This is an off-list post. You write:

> There seems to be at least one category of social entities for
> which belief is not very important.

Fictional entities, right? Well, the phrase I've heard tossed around a lot
in non-academic circles is "willing suspension of disbelief." Not belief,
but a willingness, as Peter Elbow used to say, to play the believing game,
no?

Wallace



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