From: Steele, Kirk A (SteeleKA@nafm.misawa.af.mil)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 19:04:47 MST
hate to be a nit picker but could you pass me a proof of paragraph 1 please.
Kirk
-----Original Message-----
From: L' Ermit [mailto:lhermit@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:52 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: RFC - Definitions: Truth, Acceptance, Belief, Trust and
Faith
[b]Discussion is requested. Does anyone have objections to or suggestions or
queries about the following proposed definitions?[/b]
[b][u]1 Truth[/b][/u][list]
Gödelian incompleteness and Popperian falsifiability together necessitate
that outside of a formal system of limited application, a "truth", to have
any measure of rational support, must by necessity, always be provisional,
incomplete and falsifiable, in other words, there must always, at least
hypothetically, exist some evidence which would permit that supposed truth
to be rejected.
This implies that outside of formal systems, the truth of a thing is not an
absolute, but encompasses a range of probabilities which will have varying
truth values (i.e. from "false" through "insufficient evidence to adduce a
truth value" to "true") depending on the evidence for or against such a
thing.[/list]
[b][u]2 Acceptance[/b][/u][list]
Valid acceptance of something as being provisionally true occurs when
sufficient evidence exists to make it probable that a thing is true, and in
the absence of strong contradictory evidence reducing the likelihood of the
thing being true.[/list]
[b][u]3 Belief[/b][/u][list]
Belief can only occur where acceptance is not compelled, for if acceptance
is compelled, then belief is not required to accept that thing. Belief is
thus the acceptance of some thing as being provisionally true where:[list]
3.1 contradictory evidence exists which throws doubt upon or compels the
rejection of the thing being accepted as truth.
3.2 insufficient evidence exists to compel or suggest acceptance of the
thing as truth.[/list][/list]
[b][u]4 Trust[/b][/u][list]
To vest trust is to assert that a person or thing is reliable or
predictable. This is justified where sufficient evidence exists to accept
that the person or thing is predictable and reliable enough to rely upon
it.[/list]
[b][u]5 Faith[/b][/u][list]
Faith occurs when a person places trust in a thing or person due to belief.
To put it somewhat more long-windedly, faith occurs when a person vests
trust in person or thing where:[list]
5.1 evidence exists which throws doubt upon or compels the rejection of
trustworthiness.
5.2 insufficient evidence exists to compel or suggest
trustworthiness.[/list][/list]
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