I so wish there were nice Greek words for these things. However, I think you're the only person who ever came up with them :)
It seemed an obvious and fundamental distinction to me. But then that happens a lot, and I'm normally, though not always, wrong :)
I think what I don't get is why believing one thing should be different from believing another when the factual one can't be proved right (else you'd call it 'knowing', right?) and the moral one by definition can't either.
I was lumping together (factual-)believe and know, using belief in the sense of "I believe the sky is blue."
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Date: 2005-04-06 04:48 pm (UTC)It seemed an obvious and fundamental distinction to me. But then that happens a lot, and I'm normally, though not always, wrong :)
I think what I don't get is why believing one thing should be different from believing another when the factual one can't be proved right (else you'd call it 'knowing', right?) and the moral one by definition can't either.
I was lumping together (factual-)believe and know, using belief in the sense of "I believe the sky is blue."