Re: THEORY: Are commands to believe infelicitous?

Tom wrote:
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Does anyone know of various ways various languages have handled
different versions of ideas similar to "to choose to believe"?
Perhaps by different voices (middle voice maybe), different moods,
or just different verbs?
 >>

Embedded in this is actually another question: How do other
languages (nat and con) handle the idea of believing?  I somehow
doubt that it'll always map one-to-one, the way it (presumably)
does in, say, English and Spanish.

-David
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