Pepsi vs. Coke 5

Which side?

  • Coke

    Votes: 36 48.6%

  • Pepsi

    Votes: 38 51.4%
  • Total voters
    74
Don't worry Zdamned, we are drinking a tasty illusion. From where I am standing though, that Ghengis John guy is REALLY sipping the Pepsi Kool Aid. Pepsi has their hand so far up his ass he might as well be the spokes person for Pepsi.
 
ZDamned said:
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief

Preference (also called "taste" or "penchant") is a concept, used in the social sciences, particularly economics. It assumes a real or imagined "choice" between alternatives and the possibility of rank ordering of these alternatives, based on happiness, satisfaction, gratification, enjoyment, utility they provide. More generally, it can be seen as a source of motivation. In cognitive sciences, individual preferences enable choice of objectives/goals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference

There is a huge difference, between those, and please re read my post. I never said Belief.
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What you have shown is that you know how to plug in words into wikipedia. What you haven't show is that you know what you are talking about. As an economics major at the University of Chicago (I'm sure you can wikipedia that) with a pretty deep background in philosophy, I know quite well the difference between preference and belief.

However, since you clearly don't understand how to interpret an analogy, or why I made my statement in the first place, there's no real point in explaining this to you. I'll just say that preferences are beliefs, and leave that to you to figure out what that means (or not, since you clearly seem like that kind of person).
 
I used to like Pepsi when I was younger, capable of drinking an entire liter in one day or so (Not everyday mind you) but I find it's now too sweet for me and I prefer fountain Coca-Cola. Yumm
 
There's a difference between saying "Coca-Cola is better," and saying "I like Coca-Cola better."

You can prove that such a preference is based on something other than the actual flavor, but that doesn't make such a preference wrong. I think Coke and Pepsi taste different. If the difference is based on a psychological trick, that doesn't really change the fact that in the presence of the trick they taste different (to me).
 
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