CLARIFYING A FEW DEFINITIONS

To make clear what I had to say in "Certainty and Objectivity" I posted "A Few Definitions".  Upon reflection I should say a little more to clarify the use of those definitions.  First, these definitions are the specific meanings of certainty, objectivity, and knowledge used in the first article.  I do not want to suggest that other uses of these words are invalid.  I simply wanted to be precise in this particular instance.  This precision helps to explain why I made no distinction in "Certainty and Objectivity" between, say, true knowledge and false knowledge.  My precise definition of knowledge therein made "true knowledge" redundant and "false knowledge" a contradiction.

Second, in "A Few Definitions" I could have done a better job of making the distinction between knowledge and belief.  What I had described as a fideistic error is a belief devoid of knowledge, although the way I put it appeared to label all beliefs as purely fideistic.  However, what I know I also believe.  Knowledge is belief even if not all belief is knowledge.  I sidewiped the fact that belief encompasses knowledge when I wrote, "[F]ew beliefs are entirely devoid of knowledge."  A bit more needed to said for the sake of clarity.  Hence today's post.  Of course, the subject of knowledge and belief merits much more attention, and so it will get it in the future.

Comments

[David Stefanini]

I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:

www.americanlegends.blogspot.com

If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.

Thanks,
David

[Bill]

Hi, David.

I'm glad you like the website. I'll be happy to check out your website and get back to you on an exchange of links.

By the way, I accidentally deleted the e-mail message you sent me without a chance to read it. If the message was different from your comment here, you'll need to send that to me again.

Regards, Bill