(October 11, 2014 at 12:28 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: There is a big difference between a belief and a fact.
If your beliefs aren't informed by the facts, you are what we call "delusional." It's part of how we determine who's mentally unstable, you know; you might not have a sufficient number of beliefs like that to qualify, but I want it to be known what company this belief of yours puts you in.
Quote:You don't need to have a fact to back up a belief, for instance I believe my chair will not break, I haven't got any factual information to prove it but it doesn't make my belief any more dis proven or proven.
What are you talking about? You've got plenty of factual information to back up your belief in your chair; you've got prior experience with it not breaking, you've got other examples of stable chairs that don't break to work off of, you've got at least an instinctive knowledge of physics and structure that tell you when a chair is looking unstable versus when it isn't... you might not consciously be considering all of that at the time, but let's not pretend you and that chair don't exist in a world that you get to play off of when it comes time for the two of you to interact.
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