(January 19, 2017 at 7:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Because the not all beliefs have the same content. You cannot compare beliefs apart from their content.
This is absurd. Without conscious effort our brains are constantly engaged in comparison of everything resulting a very intricate storage and ability to recall information that no computer can replicate with speed.
For example, start spouting things that are red. Both a stop sign and fire engine are likely to come to mind. A stop sign might also come up in a list of octagons, the fire engine would not.
My point is that 'content' isn't the only attribute being compared. In the case of this thread, the tooth fairy, God and the multiverse all belong to the group of things for which there is no evidence. The comparison is fair and you can't arbitrarily narrow the comparison to 'content' to avoid this inconvenient fact.