(December 21, 2017 at 11:59 am)drfuzzy Wrote:(December 20, 2017 at 5:33 pm)SteveII Wrote: You are confusing my reasons with formal arguments. Don't.
Thinking I am making formal arguments every time I talk about why I believe something is nonsense. You can't have a conversation about anything if everything has to be a formal argument. You should know by now I am more than happy to talk philosophy if asked.
Precisely. Because "belief" is not rational. It is deliberate irrationality. Belief is anti-proof. "I believe the Great Pumpkin exists and there is no way you can prove he doesn't!!!"
You have a definition problem.
Quote:Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty. [The first line in the Wiki article on "Belief" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief]
