I don’t know your background in physics. If you were to say “I feel that neutrinos make up most of what we call Black Matter”, I’d get the impression that you’re basing that statement on emotion, a gut feeling, aesthetics or something equally flimsy. If you said “I know that neutrinos…” I’d call bullshit because afaik there isn’t any conclusive evidence yet either way.
If you said “I believe that neutrinos…” I’d assume that, despite the lack of conclusive evidence, according to your current level of understanding of the currently available evidence, you have reasoned that this is the strongest current hypothesis. Now, if you said “I have faith that neutrinos…”, I’d completely dismiss you as a crazy person.
So I don’t think that we disagree about concepts here. We’re disagreeing about which words we use to represent those concepts.
So what do you suggest I say instead of “believe” or “feel”? Because I think it’s equally important to distinguish the sort of “belief” I was referring to from actually “knowing” something.
That still seems like semantics to me.
I don’t know your background in physics. If you were to say “I feel that neutrinos make up most of what we call Black Matter”, I’d get the impression that you’re basing that statement on emotion, a gut feeling, aesthetics or something equally flimsy. If you said “I know that neutrinos…” I’d call bullshit because afaik there isn’t any conclusive evidence yet either way.
If you said “I believe that neutrinos…” I’d assume that, despite the lack of conclusive evidence, according to your current level of understanding of the currently available evidence, you have reasoned that this is the strongest current hypothesis. Now, if you said “I have faith that neutrinos…”, I’d completely dismiss you as a crazy person.
So I don’t think that we disagree about concepts here. We’re disagreeing about which words we use to represent those concepts.
deleted by creator
So what do you suggest I say instead of “believe” or “feel”? Because I think it’s equally important to distinguish the sort of “belief” I was referring to from actually “knowing” something.
deleted by creator