(January 30, 2013 at 4:38 pm)Zone Wrote:(January 30, 2013 at 4:31 pm)Question Mark Wrote: Actually, non-belief in the Loch Ness monster counts as belief in the proposition that there is no Loch Ness monster. Since there is no evidence for that thing, not believing in it is the right thing to do. What is not right is saying that your belief is not a belief.
I don't currently have a belief in the non-existence of the Lochness Monster and I still wouldn't if everyone else in the world believed in it. I see no good reason so far to have a belief in the Lochness Monster. But if some evidence were to turn up and this were verified I would then know of the Lochness Monsters existence. There isn't any belief of any kind involved at any stage of the process.
Not necessarily. There's evidence for some things, but no conclusive knowledge of it. If there was a picture of the LNM, that wouldn't prove its conclusive existence, but it would lend credence towards it. If your level of acceptance were tolerable towards it, you could form a belief about its existence from that.
