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To: Diamond

So then what would the word descrbing a lack of belief?


75 posted on 09/27/2008 7:38:40 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
"Denial" is a word that could be used to refer to a lack of belief in a particular proposition. It seems to me though, that an absolute lack of belief, or an absolute skepticism, is a self-defeating and incoherent concept.

Cordially,

76 posted on 09/27/2008 8:17:43 AM PDT by Diamond (</O>)
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To: Borges

The word for those without belief on a particular point is “incredulous.”


83 posted on 10/01/2008 1:19:22 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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