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Opinions, beliefs and facts

What is a belief? Can a belief ever be true? 🧐

Opinions, beliefs and facts
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It’s a fairly well received notion that ‘opinions aren’t fact’.

(I mean there’s that funny saying about them being like a certain part of your anatomy, isn’t there: everyone’s got one!)

But what about beliefs?

Aren't beliefs just opinions, by any other name?

🤔

Beliefs aren’t facts. They can’t be. They’re just thoughts, and thought’s not fact.

Even a memory is not fact.