<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net" target="_blank">ben@zaiboc.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-3951442101354127581moz-cite-prefix">On 05/08/2018 22:07, BillW wrote:<br>
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Bill, I've had this argument many times, with various people.<br>
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I think that because we often say 'I believe you' or 'I
believe it will rain tomorrow', etc., some people say it's
impossible to have no 'beliefs', but I distinguish between
'beliefs' and 'Beliefs', where the former has no particular
force, and merely indicates an opinion, and the latter,
Capital B version indicates an absolute Belief that withstands
all evidence to the contrary. I don't have any Beliefs (or at
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<pre class="m_-3951442101354127581moz-signature" cols="72">-- Ben Zaiboc
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div></pre></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">"I believe that it's going to rain tomorrow" could express a belief based on scientific<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> </div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">data. "I believe in a personal god." does not. I assume a Belief must be based on hard science. There seems to be more than two categories here, based on different criteria for what is true.</span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><pre class="m_-3951442101354127581moz-signature" cols="72"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div>
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