(December 21, 2017 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote:(December 21, 2017 at 11:59 am)drfuzzy Wrote: 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]
"without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case"
Thank you for the clarification.
And thank you for supporting my assertion.
Belief. THINKS something to be the case without there being any empirical evidence.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
