We're not speaking of belief at all since you've denied that it has anything to do with knowledge. You're saying that it is possible for one to...
So I can know X without believing X? So then logically I can know that 2+2 is 4 eventhough I don't believe it's 4? So I know X before I believe...
If one believes X precisely because they knows X, then it would seem to follow that in order for this know X one must believe X. What difference...
I see the problem then. You're not using "knowledge" as I'm using it. Let's start off with why I say knowledge is a special case of belief. The...
You're taking for granted that her ultimate desire, in this case, is to obtain justified true belief. This seems a bit arbitrary, ad hoc, and...
I know that this is the Agnostism and Atheism Forum, and that many are zealous to prove religious folk such as myself wrong, but still, let's try...
I would say that knowledge is a special class of belief. But it isn't that mere belief indicates a lack of full knowledge, but that S's merely...
I think I know what you may be getting at, that knowledge must always be empirically grounded, or somehow confirmable by our experience, whereas...
Well in that instance I suppose the belief that "it is raining outside" would be supported--justified--by the evidence. In either case,...
I can't answer for CS, but I can give you a very general run down of knowledge: Knowledge is at least belief, but belief is not sufficient for...
Samhain, I think what you're also actually referring to is depravity (I haven't read the other posts yet, so I don't know if anyone has pointed...
Very well, and in the spirit of disclosing ideas: God is very much something :-)
I always wonder why some atheist make such a fuss over the "believing that God doesn't exist" versus "lacking a belief in God." A more cleaver...
Now I would like to see you give a defense on externalist grounds ;)
Outstanding post.
FreakerSoup, the basis for believing that Christian experiences are delusional is that they are delusional. That begs the question. If you don't...
Meh...when used against Christian experience, the only value this has is in showing a textbook example of begging the question: Christians...
Alsharad, are you thinking of original sin as imputed, or as something else?
Ironically, I think that that is exactly what you're doing. You're taking the verses you mentioned in a such a literal sense that God saying "You...
I'm probably what you would call "fundy" and I wouldn't say "The Scriptures are not open to interpretation." In fact, there's actually a science...
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