prometheus11
Well-Known Member
Okay, I'll tell you the answer. It's not evidence alone, because it was evidence, in the form of gossiping with your neighbours, that lead me to believe your roof was red in the first place. What changed, when I saw your roof with my own eyes, is a truth value. Truth as the evidence of the senses.
For those people with the empiricist bend, for whom the evidences of the senses provide them with the only accurate picture of the real world, belief is just a spring-board for knowledge. It provides a means of formulating a hypothesis, which suggests a test of itself and a probability for investing in the outcome.
For such people, the only difference between belief and knowledge is that degree of probability.
So?
Yet belief and knowledge are different things on separate continuums. For instance, you can believe something as if it were known without knowledge.