(May 13, 2017 at 10:33 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Dude... you don't seem to understand what a belief is. It doesn't matter how useful having a particular belief might be... beliefs are a state of certainty towards something considered the truth not a state of certainty towards something considered useful.
So if I'm constantly acting as if proposition X is true, and I know it could never actually be shown to be true or false, that would be different than believing it?