(April 20, 2009 at 8:34 am)athoughtfulman Wrote: I think this is just a bit of wordplay. We need a definition.
Quote:belief - any cognitive content held as true
source: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=belief
If we take the above definition as true, then every single thing that we understand and recognize as true, is counted as a belief. So everyone is a believer in something, but being a believer does not mean you have faith.
IE: Every 'faith' is a belief but not every 'belief' is a faith.
Agreed.
Similar, I think, to how everything 'known' is a belief but not every belief is known (because not every belief is true. To truly 'KNOW' something it must be true. But anything 'known' must also be believed - not simply be a fact that no one knows about - that would be an UNknown fact.
EvF
