Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA01806 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 23 Sep 2001 05:54:07 +0100 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:48:11 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3BAD698B.3F38DB6@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010923025935.AAA19677%camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.43]> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Wade,
> I've got, from the American Heritage -
>
> >belief n.
> >1. The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in
> >another.
> >2. Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or
> >validity of something.
> >3. Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet
> >or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.
>
> Beliefs rarely if ever rely upon evidence. Examinations of evidence is a
> process of science.
Anyway, learning is not necessary. :-)
Ciao,
Bill
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