(May 10, 2018 at 8:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 10, 2018 at 7:44 pm)Hammy Wrote: Belief can be both rational and irrational. I think you're thinking of faith.
For starters, belief is one of the requisites of knowledge. Some would say that knowledge = justified true belief.
I definitely do believe that 2+2=4. The alternative would be disbelieving it.
#limitations of the semantics of "belief".
-You don;t know that, or do you? Do you know it and believe it? Do you believe it but not know it?
What are you trying to say there?
Every proposition is either believed or disbelieved.
And yes you can believe something but not know it.
But you can't know something but not believe it.