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To: neolib who wrote (494849)

7/18/2022 5:11:42 PM

From: koan

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He was just describing how humans are at any given moment in their state of mind, nothing more.

He sort of condensed our states of mind into an equation i.e. we either believe something, don't or are in doubt.

And we can change any of those states of mind with new information.

It is not particularly profound but does give a person something to think about.

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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.