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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (494839)7/18/2022 4:37:41 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 543206
 
Charles Pierce (the rightful originator of pragmatism) said:" we are all, at any time, in one of three states about anything Belief, Doubt or Disbelief.

I personally don't relate to that, as Belief and Disbelief don't in themselves say anything about why you hold that position. Instead, I would say we are in one of two states, Knowledge or Ignorance. If you have Knowledge about a subject, you might have a "belief" or "disbelief" on the topic, but if you have Ignorance on the topic, one might say you have "doubt" on that subject.
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