Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ted Kaczynski
21 Apr 2012
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Belief systems refer to the underlying beliefs and assumptions we hold to be self-evident (they are the back-drop of our thinking). For example, during the cold war most canadian leaders believed the soviet union was opportunistic and aggressive. Right now, we share the same beliefs about. They believed the ussr was a threat and they assumed the united states was. A belief is the mental concept at the basis of an argument or action . An assumption is the taking of anything for granted as the basis of an argument or action. Example #1: the fact that there was no war between nato and the warsaw pact for over forty years, between 1949-1989, was often used to support a belief in the strategy of nuclear deterrence. Underlying this kind of reasoning is the basic assumption that: the possession of nuclear weapons deters war. Example #2: the fact that there has been no nuclear (or conventional war) between india and.
