RE: Agnostic: a pointless term?
January 31, 2015 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2015 at 12:17 pm by YGninja.)
(January 31, 2015 at 12:11 pm)robvalue Wrote: Did you read the article? You can believe a statement without having to claim that you know it is true. Knowledge is a subset of belief. I believe a ball will fall when I drop it, but I don't know it.
Again you are trying to talk about certainty. You believe the ball will drop without being certain that it will, because you do have knowledge which grounds the belief, a wealth of knowledge from past experience, physics, etc. You belief isn't ungrounded, is it. If it were completely ungrounded, it would be irrational, and a belief cannot be grounded without assuming some knowledge.
