Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA14596 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:27:17 +0100 Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:22:19 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010927112217.AAA19305@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.19]> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney -
>Your definition of "belief" is unique, and these statements are worthless.
Lots of definitions are useless. I try to define usage as well as
meaning, to attempt to come to some sort of understandable discourse.
My definition of belief comes from this following definition, and I only
refine it to the point of saying it requires no proof, which is, as you
say, more like 'faith'. So, substitute 'faith' - I have to substitute
'hood' for 'bonnet' dealing with you, and I do it simply and easily.
3. Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet
or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.
As for lying, well, I cannot have any surity about things. I'm always
reaching. The truth is not tangible for so many things.
I've only said, as you say, that true believers are not born, but made.
The only amplification I've attempted is an ethical one, that making such
believers is false to human nature.
- Wade
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