This page groups beliefs by the era their classic formulation was fixed in. Wikipedia notes that thinkers have described beliefs "as representations of ways that the world could be (Jerry Fodor), as dispositions to act as if certain things are true (Roderick Chisholm)," each account tied to its own period. Browsing by origin period lets a visitor compare how old one belief's formulation is against another.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingActs a tradition forbids, stated as it states them - intoxicants, usury, meat killed by another rite, tobacco. A prohibition is recorded here where the tradition frames it as a rule binding on members, as distinct from a taboo, which is framed as danger inhering in the thing itself. 2 Learn More
The prohibitions
This group gathers prohibitions, the acts a tradition forbids, the "thou shalt nots" by which it marks the boundaries of right conduct and ritual purity. Prohibitions define a community as much by what it refuses as by what it affirms.
The browser will find the prohibitions the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, noting the tradition that upholds it and the reason given for the prohibition.
Origin Period Start Year
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Taboo
Franz Steiner; edited by Laura Bohannan, preface by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Cohen and West, 1956
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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