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To: The Philosopher who wrote (6536)	6/22/2003 8:58:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I contend that the concept of certainty and the concepts of believing and supposing are not as clear-cut as you would like them to be If they weren't different, we wouldn't have separate words for them. Remember the Aleuts and snow... But religious belief is very much a part of Western thought. Of course it is. Belief! I disagree with you regarding the prism through which people see the world. There haven't been many intellectuals in recent centuries who see the world through a prism of religious certainty. Intellectuals who have been religious have blended the objective with the spiritual. People commonly deal with the secular in a secular way and the religious in a religious way. Sometimes things get murky, like the way people explain strange phenomena as ghosts or aliens. But they don't see a basketball as a religious icon even if they wear a WWJD bracelet. Religious belief, after a decline in the 60s to 80s, is growing again, and growing strongly. Please remember that religious belief is not at issue here. I'm just talking about knowing the difference between certainty and certitude, not about having certitude that one's deity is true. Certitude is cricket.