Re: Disbelieving in belief

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 13:58:30 MST


Lee Corbin wrote:
> Brett explains why a number of careful thinkers go ballistic
> when they hear the word "belief". I had always wondered about
> that.
>
>
>>[Some people] have not yet separated themselves from
>>superstition and when they stick their uncritical,
>>unweighted, propositions in each others faces they
>>do so proclaiming all too often, all too proudly,
>>as though it were a great virtue in itself,
>>"this is what I BELIEVE !".
>
>
> It is perhaps significant that I don't ever recall anyone using
> the word in this manner, and I have even entertained a number
> of religionists who've knocked at the door. That is *so*
> mindless, that perhaps it's a vanishing usage.

Perhaps we can upgrade even the uncritical to say, "this is my
working hypothesis!" :-)

- samantha



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