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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (78001)	10/21/2003 3:17:46 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Meanwhile I just chuckle over how people don't "know" the difference between knowing and believing, facts and theories, etc. Knowing is a function of quality of data. When we have sufficient data to have confidence in our beliefs, we call our beliefs "knowledge" although that may be a stretch in an absolute sense. Precisely. Both what we call knowledge and what we call belief are really belief. It's a matter of our confidence. If you are confident that the earth revolves around the sun, you say you "know" that. If you are confident that God exists, you say you know that. Same thing. We are agreed on this.