RE: Question about "faith"
September 12, 2020 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2020 at 2:48 pm by Angrboda.)
(September 12, 2020 at 12:18 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(September 12, 2020 at 9:09 am)Angrboda Wrote: Well, that's interesting and all, but I don't see that as an answer to my question. Are you or are you not drawing a categorical distinction between propositions we believe to be true because we feel like we know that they are true and some other category of propositions which we hold to be true, but by some other means? If you aren't asserting such a distinction, then I have misunderstood you, and we'll have to back up and try to reach some level of mutual understanding. If you are asserting such a categorical distinction, then you need to produce it.
Produce the distinction between emotivism and cognitivism....?
The category of things we believe to be true because we feel a certain way about them - emotivist.
The category of things we believe to be true because they can be true or false and are true - cognitivist.
Our new christian friend, for example, feels a certain way about christ. Whether or not I am alive can be true or false, and is true.
I didn't ask about emotivism and cognitivism. And neither emotivists nor cognitivists are categories of things they believe to be true, by any method. Emotivism, afaik, is a theory of ethics, not knowledge. You seem to be engaged in numerous category errors. But let's go with your ersatz categories and strawmen. How does a cognitivist determine that what he believes to be true is true?