hm, maybe you ought to start a new post before things disappear deep in wodges of comments.
I don't think it's a problem, necessarily, but it seems to me the case that by those definitions, some people would factual-believe something which others only moral-believe, and there's nothing you can do about it except get deep into unwinnable arguments over the borderline cases ;) Now, which kind of belief do you use to assign decisions on whether something is factual-belief or moral-belief? [I say, factual belief]
(I like this, jack posts about how we don't need to argue as long as we define terms properly, so we launch into an argument over the definition of terms, which is just what you were trying to avoid, no?)
* and the computational resources to make use of it, which I guess relates to your "practically unmeasurable" below.
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Date: 2005-04-06 08:43 am (UTC)I don't think it's a problem, necessarily, but it seems to me the case that by those definitions, some people would factual-believe something which others only moral-believe, and there's nothing you can do about it except get deep into unwinnable arguments over the borderline cases ;) Now, which kind of belief do you use to assign decisions on whether something is factual-belief or moral-belief? [I say, factual belief]
(I like this, jack posts about how we don't need to argue as long as we define terms properly, so we launch into an argument over the definition of terms, which is just what you were trying to avoid, no?)
* and the computational resources to make use of it, which I guess relates to your "practically unmeasurable" below.