RE: ★★ We are all atheists/atheistic to ALL Gods (says simple science)
January 10, 2017 at 9:57 pm
(January 10, 2017 at 9:26 pm)ProgrammingGodJordan Wrote: It appears you have failed to reduce the initial passage.
International belief definition:
To accept as TRUE/ABSOLUTE.
Simply, we aren't omniscient of any event, thusly we can't regard any event as TRUE/TOTAL/ABSOLUTE.
That is not the definition used by most philosophers or cognitive scientists.
The Stanford Encyclopedia (considered one of the best) defines it thus:
"Contemporary analytic philosophers of mind generally use the term “belief” to refer to the attitude we have, roughly, whenever we take something to be the case or regard it as true."
"Most contemporary philosophers characterize belief as a “propositional attitude”.
There is nothing about the need to be absolute about beliefs.
Belief is simply the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition to be true.
I believe the proposition that my girlfriend loves me, but I do not believe with absolute certainty.
I believe that evolution is true, but my beliefs are provisional and not absolute, based on evidence.
As David Hume said: "A Wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
In other words, it is possible to have beliefs held at various degrees of certainty.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
