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

To: Lane3 who wrote (78009)	10/21/2003 6:45:08 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It's the same thing for those who know the difference between knowing and believing. Okay. So, let's clarify the difference. How's this for a start. Knowledge for an individaal is belief in which they have a high level of confidence in its truth (whatever the term truth means, which is a whole nother issue). Belief for an individual is belief in which their level of confidence in its truth is less certain. Knowledge for a group or society is belief in which a large but so far undefined number of the members of the group have a high level of confidence in its truth. Knowledge does not necessarily have anything to do with truth. For example, early man knew that the earth was flat. For him, that wasn't belief, it was knowledge. But today we have reasonable certainty (therefore knowledge, not just belief) that he was wrong. (Of course, it could end up that he was correct and that all the sense perceptions we are relying on to "prove" that the earth is roughly spherical are all optical or sensory illusions, like mirages on a much grander scale.)