Abstract

Suspending comes in many varieties, some of which are determined by two divides: one between occurrent and dispositional suspending; and another between judgmental and functional suspending. To suspend judgmentally is to consciously and intentionally forbear from judgment (either positive or negative) on a given question. Functional suspending, by contrast, is constituted rather by the agent’s subconsciously forbearing from teleologically functional (aimed) belief and disbelief. What follows takes up suspension generally, to include the teleologically functional and not just the judgmental, both in occurrent and in dispositional forms, and both the instantaneous and the deliberately stable and longstanding; and more.