Timeline for What is the difference between knowledge and belief?
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| Apr 1, 2021 at 22:59 | comment | added | Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen | Perhaps a better example, is that 1 + 1 = 2, doesn't require any belief. | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 22:48 | comment | added | Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen | Knowledge is not a type of belief. If you witness a car crash, you don't have to believe in it for its reality to remain in place. The knowledge is there both in the witness and the marks it's left in the world. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 12:51 | comment | added | user20253 | Many folk would disagree that knowledge is a kind of belief. For logical reasons certain knowledge has to be 'knowledge by identity' and is therefore an experience or state of being rather than a belief. But this may be debatable depending on how we use the words. Is the experience of pain a belief? To me it seems to be 'knowledge by identity'. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | LightCC | The analysis of the diagram is incorrect here. An agnostic doesn't say they are "completely unsure" - they say either that they are not completely convinced "yet", or that what they believe cannot be completely proven. One could view this simply as believing based on an inductive proof while understanding that's evidence, but not a strong or often conclusive proof, and desiring a deductive method instead (sometimes even understanding or believing that is impossible). | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 5:01 | comment | added | Lucas | +1 for "The meta-lesson that I learn from this diagram is that a nice clean diagram does not necessarily exhibit coherent or consistent concepts." | |
| Sep 18, 2011 at 14:38 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |