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To: beavus

You didn't, I did. You said it is a fixed belief. You said 2+2=4 is a belief, and some stuff about 2+2=5. Of course I believe 2+2=4, I don't think it is a belief, I think it is a fact.

Your last paragraph did not answer how anyone would know that a belief corresponds to the truth. As you say, some beliefs are reasonable, some are not, but that does not make that belief a truth.


162 posted on 08/05/2005 4:44:06 PM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr
...I believe 2+2=4, I don't think it is a belief...

That doesn't make sense.

I don't think it is a belief, I think it is a fact.

So now you don't think people believe facts?

Let's see if this helps:

define:belief
"any cognitive content held as true"

163 posted on 08/05/2005 4:56:46 PM PDT by beavus (Hussein's war. Bush's response.)
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