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To: TigerPaw who wrote (462696)

12/31/2020 1:39:38 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 543012

I applaud your giving it thought. That is the most important thing!!

What I am saying is much more simple and not profound at all-lol.

As I told another poster this idea comes from a 19th century philosopher Charles Pierce and what he said is that at any time all of us, are in one of three states of belief about anything.

We either believe it, or don't believe it or are in doubt about it.

Whether the store has apples-lol? Whether there is other life in the universe.

E.g. I believe that life is pervasive in the universe, but I have no direct knowledge that it is, BUT I believe it.

We either believe it does, or does not, or are not sure (doubt).

It is just a clever realization.

People really only started waking up about 100 years ago and that thinking has brought us to this state of humanitarian civilization.

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To: koan who wrote (462625)	12/31/2020 12:42:24 AM
From: TigerPaw	of 462736

Everyone believes something one way or the other: belief, disbelief or doubt. I disagree. There are those of us who try to determine what we know, and what we think we know, and what we really wonder about. Belief implies accepting something because we hope it is so. Everyone can be subject to self delusion, but that is not the same as just accepting something because we wish it to be that way.