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Originally Posted by Witty
As for believing you will wake up in the morning, that's because you have woken every morning, so if you go to bed and think 'I believe I will wake in the morning' really what you are doing is making an hypothesis based on past experience. You are in bed, you don't feel unwell, you are about to sleep, it is likely you will wake in the morning.
It does not require belief.
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as long as death is a possibility (as it always is, since it's inevitable), then yes, you are believing that you're going to wake up. you
can't know the future. I understand what you're saying, but hypothesizing is just as devoid of certainty as belief is. It's just that usually hypotheses yield results, whereas beliefs do not. think of it like this: if you hypothesize that you'll wake up in the morning, and you die in your sleep, what's the difference between being wrong in your hypothesis or being wrong in your belief that you were gonna wake up?