2006-12-24 14:34:27 · 15 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Doubt is being unsure. You can be very sure of something and be wrong. You can have doubt over something that you are sure of. Doubt is knowing that regardless how sure you are of your belief, there is still a possibility that you could be wrong. Once you realize that everything is not black in white, then you may wonder what degree of correctness is your belief. Doubt is the first step to an open mind.
2006-12-24 14:45:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Take, for instance Descartes methodological doubt. He believed that if you doubted everything then you could truly come to know what was most real and true.
If you doubt something, it doesn't mean you don't want/care to understand. Doubt is the key to finding out what is true and what isn't, as long as you take that doubt and make it useful. Test it and come to a conclusion on your own, and don't let that conclusion be altered by your desires or uncomfortableness with the answer.
Not caring to understand is an example of bad faith, or not accepting something because of some unecessary facts, not doubt.
2006-12-24 23:22:34 · answer #2 · answered by The best Me there is!!! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You confuse doubt with belief.
Each time you believe you stop learning about what you believe, and usually new information is ignored or given outright hostility.
If you follow a set of information in doubt, then new information is readily adapted to a new and deeper understanding.
Belief is self satisfied and needs no more understanding, only doubt really cares to know and understand more.
2006-12-25 00:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by Dragon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Doubt is, for me, a daily torture of the soul. I battle my human nature every single day because of doubt and trust. I suppose, now that I think about it, not caring to understand something plays a part. But I don't think that's all of it.
2006-12-25 05:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not caring to understand may lead to a lack of ability to believe..... but then it is only after you care first of all to understand that any cause for doubt can arise !! Doubt is no indifference!!!
2006-12-24 23:05:24 · answer #5 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doubt goes beyond being simply un-sure or even merely questioning. Doubt implies that much of what you comprehend about the subject gives you rational reasons to believe that alternatives would likely break the mold.
2006-12-25 01:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. On the contrary, doubts arise when you care to understand and unravel the mysteries... Merry Christmas.. :-)
2006-12-25 00:01:58 · answer #7 · answered by Swathi Rao 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think doubt is not having enough faith or knowledge to be absolutely sure, whereas indifference is not caring to understand.
2006-12-24 22:40:25 · answer #8 · answered by Rainfog 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say blind faith is more about not caring to understand, than doubting something. Do you doubt it?
2006-12-24 22:40:36 · answer #9 · answered by T C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you can doubt when you understand but it goes against your own reason. you can understand that person's point of view etc. but that doesn't mean you have to make it your own.
like buddha said:
never believe anything no matter where you read it or who said it unless it agrees with your own reason.
2006-12-24 22:41:34 · answer #10 · answered by missy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋