[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles - the b wordagain

[Harvey Newstrom]

Brett Paatsch wrote, 
> I am not sure what you point is Harvey, but as I've already
> written what feels like about 3 books on the dangers of the 
> word "believe" in the last week - what the hell, I'll take 
> another go at clarifying.

Actually, your expansions at length on this concept are not helping me.  I
must have missed the very first point on which this is all based.  I assume
it is something simple such as, "the word 'believe' implies a faith-based
assumption on which we shouldn't rely" or something like that.  Is that your
point, that the word belief allows people to refer to unreliable data as if
it were true?  Whatever your reason, I believe that any word can be misused
in the exact same way.  Witness "Creation Science" trying to redefine a
certain faith-based belief as "science."  I expect any word you use to
replace "belief" will get adopted in the same way by all true believers who
think their thoughts deserve the stronger word.

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