Faith cannot be belief without evidence, as the faithful will hold up a bible as 'evidence' (or insert your favored source of religious Truth).
I would suggest instead that 'knowledge' is information that has been tested via rigorous peer review via the scientific method. Anything else is varying shades of 'belief' or 'fantasy', depending on how polite/political you choose to be.
There's a big gotcha here. If you follow these definitions, the great majority of what is commonly considered to be 'fact' would actually be 'belief', as you are unable to show your work, nor who validated your work and preconceptions via THEIR work.
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Date: 2007-12-04 07:22 pm (UTC)I would suggest instead that 'knowledge' is information that has been tested via rigorous peer review via the scientific method. Anything else is varying shades of 'belief' or 'fantasy', depending on how polite/political you choose to be.
There's a big gotcha here. If you follow these definitions, the great majority of what is commonly considered to be 'fact' would actually be 'belief', as you are unable to show your work, nor who validated your work and preconceptions via THEIR work.
*grin* Philosophy is FUN brain-fry.
-John