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2006-12-16 22:21:57 · 15 answers · asked by TLC 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Faith is still ignorance!
2006-12-16 22:35:10 · update #1
Example: You believe in GOD!
Both belief and disbelief have elements of doubt (probability)!
So is it faith in God or is it faith in your ignorance?
2006-12-16 22:46:05 · update #2
Surly they cannot be opposites because they both point to the only fact you have… Ignorance!
2006-12-16 22:49:42 · update #3
What you trust is the knowledge you have, which exist in both... So again the opposites or duality is still unproven!
2006-12-17 00:14:57 · update #4
Agreed. They are part of a spectrum, but what's the spectrum?
2006-12-17 00:16:41 · update #5
Surely the spectrum is ignorance?
2006-12-17 00:26:27 · update #6
No! What I am saying is the truth!
I DON'T KNOW or I DO KNOW!
This is fact based on my knowledge, anything else probability. There is no doubt in what you know as fact!
Anything else other than what I know is ignorance!
2006-12-17 01:31:57 · update #7
Ignorance may well be bliss but, all the time you only believe in it, you will never know it!
2006-12-17 01:52:16 · update #8
Belief - Probability of something
Disbelief - Improbability of something
Nothing is impossible!
Anything is possible!
2006-12-17 09:39:50 · update #9
They are faces of a coin, they are born of fear of being nothing. Only the afraid mind accept belief and disbelief. Being afraid is ignorance. It is like copying, obeying others, toe the line without originality. For sure it is ignorance.
2006-12-17 07:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by ol's one 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be able to judge the two positions and qualify them as ignorance you must know the difference between ignorance and its contrary. It is important for you to define your stand point so that it is possible to dialogue with you about the matter. You probably have your own belief which you use as a secure ground from which to judge the believers and disbelievers. maybe you consider that you are one of those in the "know'' and are therefore not 'ignorant' thus justifying your higher dry or moral ground. Knowledge is a form of Belief as you msut have learnt in high school since most things are told us by others... Evidence that is before you is the only stuff that you do not need to believe, but ven then there is some degree of belief.
2006-12-17 08:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by peaceisfromgod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am answering this In the context of the bible and the Christian faith/belief. The Greek word used in the New Testament which is translated belief or faith also means trust. I think of belief as being the same as trust. and therefore disbelief is the opposite. For example, I believe and trust that a plane will fly, therefore i get on it. If i didnt trust the plane would fly (ie disbelieved) then I wouldnt get on it. Hope this helps. Belief in the religious sense is a trusting that something is true and acting upon that trust.
2006-12-17 07:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disambiguation is in order. Ignorance can mean two things: a lack of knowledge arrived at by circumstance; an intentional lack of knowledge. Belief is an affirmative intentional state with respect to an object -- the believed. Disbelief is either an affirmative intentional state (negating the ostention), or it is the lack of belief, which doesn't require intentionality at all.
To be in a belief-state requires the suppression of many other beliefs, either they are background beliefs necessary for an emergent belief, or they are contradictory, or irrelevant to the present state. In this sense any belief also ignores, by necessity, the totality of a phenomenon. There is no way to be present to all one's beliefs at the same moment. As disbelief is a form of belief, it's possibility, too, depends on ignorance. These are circumstantial forms of ignorance; there is nothing intentional about it. The distinction between disbelief and belief is valuable, their use does not reduce to ignorance.
If you mean ignorance in the intentional sense, then no, belief-itself doesn't have intentionality. One may only be ignorant on the basis of having beliefs about ignorance; for instance, being in a belief-state with respect to a (false) generalization. One may sensibly disbelieve the value of intentional ignorance, without being intentionally ignorant. Disbelief, qua non-intentional lack of belief, is ignorant only in the circumstantial way.
2006-12-17 16:59:55 · answer #4 · answered by -.- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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ig·no·rance /ËɪgnÉrÉns/ Pronunciation Key Pronunciation[ig-ner-uhns] Pronunciation Key
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–noun
the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME < L ignÅrantia. See ignore, -ance]
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ig·no·rance (Äg'nÉr-Éns) Pronunciation Key
n. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
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ignorance
noun
the lack of knowledge or education
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2006-12-17 06:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by אידיאליסטי™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hypothetically
Sunday afternoon in the atomic research centre in Switzerland. They have created a worm hole.
5 scientist standing there looking at this thing from Hollywood as if it were
1st says: Lock all the doors! Mobilize the troops! Call the president!
2nd says: Wow, Look at that!
3rd says: Let's check it out. Does it emit radiation?
4th says: HOLY S H I T!
It's about awareness and ignorance.
Ignorance is bliss
That is what i believe.
2006-12-17 09:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief and disbelief are only relative to the observer as they are often based on emotions. They may be right or they may be wrong, relative to their experiences, as belief's are based on thoughts and thoughts may or may not be based on fact.
Facts are anything that can be measured to 99.99 degrees. If I believe the earth is flat it hardly makes a difference that the earth is not flat, to me and my beliefs it is!! but it is certainly NOT a fact.
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."
Peace.
2006-12-17 07:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by -Tequila17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief is acceptance of what one's knowledge / experience may be, in any given situation.
This leads to a point of view - best within the realm of one's understandings.
Disbelief is 'wonder', at what has been believed by others who do not share or have the same knowledge / experience.
2006-12-17 06:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by st 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree they are the same.....you might belive in something as you might be ignorant about an alternative view and you might disagree because of the same reason.
More than belief-Disbelief, what matters to me is Faith. If you faith, you believe and if you dont, then you dont.
2006-12-17 06:26:47 · answer #9 · answered by Aditya Sehgal 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are well defined boundaries! You either believe in something, or you don't believe in something, (Disbelieve) Opposite ends of the spectrum! Have a good day!
2006-12-17 08:01:40 · answer #10 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋