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Scientifically Investigating Human Belief

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08-06-2011 10:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by John Jones
08-06-2011 10:36 AM

A belief is the decision to act on one of two or more necessarily unproved or unprovable propositions. Not only that, but the decision to act on any one of the propositions is always i) beyond logical reproach even if it is pragmatically a matter of reproach ii) unrelated to the facts on which the unproved propositions are based.
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What about beliefs that have been proven wrong by mountains of evidence?
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