I’m not interested in what the dictionary says or a textbook definition I’m interested in your personal distinction between the two ideas. How do you decide to put an idea in one category versus the other? I’m not interested in the abstract concepts like ‘objective truth’ I want to know how it works in real life for you.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    There is an overlap though, but first I’ll answer your question.

    Belief is anything you take as a truth, often without any means of proof. There are conscious beliefs and I guess subconscious ones.

    Knowledge is anything you are aware of; your personal recollection of life data.

    Therefore anything you consciously believe in requires you to first acquire knowledge of it.

    Things get complicated because we usually take in most knowledge as facts and truths, which means we believe in a lot of what we know. But it’s not easy to always know which knowledge actually doesn’t represent reality.