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What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
Knowledge is confirmed belief. Confirmation however is different for everyone, some even need at least 99% certainty.What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
The description I prefer is that belief is an attitude of truth towards an object (proposition). An attitude can be genuine or it can be adopted, but in any case we invest ourselves in it to satisfy a practical need for reality.What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
I think that's how many people distinguish between the 2: belief is something we think is true. Knowledge is something we are certain is true.Believing is believing that we can make it to Mars, we just don't know 100% if we are going to make it. Is that good?
If I meet my coworker's wife once, and learn her name is Julia, would I have to be introduced to her multiple times in order to know that her name was Julia?Generally, belief doesn't require repeatable evidence, and knowledge does.
I like the stepping stone imagery.I believe I'm going to live tomorrow. I try not to take it for granted; and, I put conviction and gratitude on my existence today, I will do likewise when I live tomorrow. I think or hold the opinion of something true.
However,
I know that my beliefs are not facts. I do not know if I will be alive tomorrow. Yet, we say with certainty we will but that's taking life for granted.
How they relate?
Maybe belief is the stepping stone to knowledge. First we have to trust what we believe to be true. When it's confirmed, it's no longer a belief, it's knowledge.
I think this is a usual understanding. But, since confirmation is different for everyone, does knowledge have any, or require any, actual relationship to the truth? Can I say that I know something that turns out to be false?Knowledge is confirmed belief. Confirmation however is different for everyone, some even need at least 99% certainty.
What is belief?
What is knowledge?
What, if any, is the relation between them?
I think this is a really practical approach.Knowledge for me is generally something I feel comfortable about proving to someone else. Belief is something I think is true but might not be able to prove it.
Acceptance of a premise or claim as true.What is belief?
Justified true belief.What is knowledge?
Knowledge is a subset of belief.What, if any, is the relation between them?
As always, your post challenges and informs.The description I prefer is that belief is an attitude of truth towards an object (proposition). An attitude can be genuine or it can be adopted, but in any case we invest ourselves in it to satisfy a practical need for reality.
Knowledge is that same attitude with the caveat that it just happens to be true.
The relation between them is ontology.
The problem being, of course, how do we determine reality?Beliefs are what you think might be true about reality. Knowledge comes from getting your hands dirty and is based in reality.
If I meet my coworker's wife once, and learn her name is Julia, would I have to be introduced to her multiple times in order to know that her name was Julia?