RE: Question about "faith"
September 13, 2020 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2020 at 1:21 pm by Angrboda.)
(September 13, 2020 at 12:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Can your beliefs be true or false, or do they resolve to feeling a certain way about a thing?
(Human beings hold lots of paradoxical concepts in mind. False knowledge is common. You can't be mistaken in thinking that you possess knowledge, if you think you possess knowledge. That's a true fact. You do think that.)
I'm likely not going to get back to you for a couple days, so be forewarned. My beliefs can be true without them being knowledge, so I'm sorry, but I don't see this as leading anywhere. I may believe I'm the sexiest Asian dumpling for 64 city blocks. It may be true that I am the sexiest Asian dumpling for 64 city blocks. I don't at present know that I am the sexiest Asian dumpling for 64 city blocks, and my feeling or not feeling something won't make a lick of difference in that regard. Though if you want to try to persuade me that I am justified in believing that I am the sexiest Asian dumpling for 64 city blocks, I'm willing to listen to your case.
As to the latter, of course you can be mistaken in thinking that you possess knowledge. You think that you think that you possess knowledge, and you can't be mistaken in that (or if you can, it's not something I intend to argue for at this time). I may think that I possess justified true belief that the moon is made of green cheese because a Republican is in the White House. I would be mistaken in believing that the moon being made of green cheese was justified by the fact of Trump's presidency. A Republican in the White House doesn't logically entail the moon being made of green cheese, or at least, not obviously so, so my belief that I have justified true belief, aka knowledge, is mistaken (failing some fact being shown that a Republican being in the White House does in fact entail the moon being made of green cheese; said fact would need to be present, though).
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