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.

  • ChainweaselEnglish
    2•2 hours ago

    There should be absolutely no room for any kind of personal distinction between the two.
    Knowledge can be proven.
    Faith/belief cannot be proven.

    If you can prove something is real then you cannot believe in it.
    I don’t believe the moon is real because I have knowledge that it is indeed real, and I can prove it by telling you to just look at it.
    I cannot factually know that God doesn’t exist because I cannot prove that using any kind of experiment or test, so I cannot “know” that it’s true no matter how strong my belief in that statement is.

    Any “personal definition” of either of those is factually wrong. If we could all walk around with our own personal meanings behind concepts we wouldn’t have a functional language.