Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Belief) (Humans)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 13:24 (4858 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw:-Quick clarification. My usage of "claim" is in the philosophical context:
"A claim is an assertion of truth."-God exists. 
Mary had a lamb.
I'm a billionaire.
1 + 1 = 2-Belief would be, accepting me at my word on those things that are not knowledge, nor are demonstrable.-"Acceptance of a claim in presence of ambiguous knowledge." 
I might be a Billionaire, in which case you would have true belief. If you saw my name on a Forbes 500 list, then you would have knowledge instead of belief.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"


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