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Originally Posted by oats
you say anything greater than 0% certainty does not count as a belief
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Originally Posted by Witty
belief is for things for which we have no evidence
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A belief by definition is the acceptance of something that has absolutely no evidence to suggest it is true.
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people with beliefs will not do so because they have no evidence in the first place.
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believing something is to admit you have nothing to support it.
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it kinda seems like that's exactly what you're saying lol. and yes, beliefs can be proven. it rained for the past three days. I believe it will rain tomorrow. I have a good amount of evidence to suggest that this belief (or hypothesis - you can use them interchangeable in this instance) is correct. But the only time I will KNOW it is correct is when it starts raining. think of it like this and tell me where you disagree:
belief and knowledge are opposites.
to know something means that you have 100% statistical certainty IE I know I'm going to die since 100% of humans so far have died, I know the sun exists because we would not be alive without it, I know I woke up this morning because it was experienced and observed (it happened).
if there is no statistical certainty, you cannot know something IE there is a 60% chance it will rain tomorrow based off of previous experience and meteorological data, there is a 99% chance I will wake up tomorrow because I am sheltered from all but the most unlikely causes of death tonight, etc.
BUT - is there any chance, even .00000001% that I could die tonight? Sure - it's bound to happen one day, and until something happens (is experienced and observed), there is not 100% certainty.
Therefore, nothing in the future can be known (with the exception of death). The future is not knowledge.
belief=certainty minus statistical probability.
therefore, belief pervades all things that aren't known with statistical certainty, in varying degrees.