Knowledge, Belief, and Faith by Anthony Kenny; The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture 2007, given at the London School of Economics, January 24th, 2007. — Banno
Putting it roughly and briefly,
One believes some statement when one holds it to be true.
One is certain of some statement when one does not subject it to doubt.
One has faith in a statement when one believes it regardless of the evidence. — Banno
Don't think so. Don't much care, either, unless you can cite some reliable sources or present more than your own opine. — Banno
Faith is definitely unwarranted belief. It has this in common with many ordinary beliefs. The element of will is the distinction. — Tate
Faith can be distinguished from certainty in that faith is that sub-class of certainty such that no evidence to the contrary will be sufficient to dissuade the believer. — Banno
I, personally, "believe in" many noble things including such things as "Love" or "Democracy", etc but, in contrast, I believe nothing whatsoever.
I, personally hate and despise the action of "believing". — Ken Edwards
So the problem is, you are again speaking ambiguously; by "is certain" did you mean "feels certain" or something like "has the certitude of common knowledge or assent"; the two are not the same. You need to speak with more clarity. Re the third, I would say no one believes anything without also believing they have evidence. — Janus
As pointed out previously, here you seem to be vacillating between "is certain" and "is true", as you must do if you are to adopt a pragmatic theory of truth. Is that your goal? — Banno
Universeness, if your point is that same as Ken's, quoted here, which I agree with, then it is not "inconvenient for my point" at all. — Janus
It's constructed in at least the sense that the screen is distinguished from everything else. — praxis
The way to help stop people believing in and acting (sometimes lethally) based on false claims is to encourage everyone to fact check as much as possible, not encourage alternatives to the word or concept of belief. — universeness
"Having studied the subject a bit, I believe that Democracy is the best form of government for the people that I know of, at least when it has adequate supporting institutions, checks on power, etc."
...wouldn't make any sense to you? It seems a perfectly normal sentence to me. — Isaac
As ↪Banno has already clarified, that's what 'seeing' is. We don't 'see' the constructed screen (as if we could see the deconstructed one, but don't). Rather 'seeing' something is the process itself. Identifying edges, corners, texture, colour, size...naming it, remembering it, picturing it's use, imagining it's far side...these processes are what 'seeing' consists of. — Isaac
It suggests more a commitment, that I will ‘hold it to be true’, when I would rather be more adaptive. — praxis
Is it really separate? — praxis
Isn’t fact checking or verification the alternative to belief? If you’re opposed to holding something to be true then, if it matters, you must be for verifying that it’s true. — praxis
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