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>False. Decisions are not beliefs.
A rational decision is based on knowledge, otherwise it wouldn’t be rational. When making a decision you’re choosing which knowledge is true about a certain object or objects, and a belief is knowledge regarded as true. What I mean is that you’re always gonna have to choose a belief and base your decision around it, that’s where anguish comes from, not being sure about one’s own beliefs (which end up affecting decisions) and it is why kierkegaard justifies the leap of faith, because at doing so reason is trascended.
> Russell never made any claims about "following beliefs" in general.
When choosing not to die for his beliefs, he’s adopting a belief against his own, meaning that he’s always gonna have to follow a belief one way or the other.
> Russell never claimed not to hold beliefs
but why is he choosing another belief he isn’t sure about either way?
> Russell never made any claims about "giving up one's own beliefs".
he’s doing so when choosing not to die for them