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Bigjon
23rd November 2015, 10:16 AM
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All men and women believe in something. Even atheists "believe" in a model of nothing, as do anarchists in a model of social disfunction.


Belief is such a fundamentally important concept, that its true meaning, word origin are often overlooked as being "self evident". In the context of the opening sentence on this page, we mean that "all men and women certain facts, tools (models) and information they trust in order to function on a day to day basis".


This is the essence of what most people understand "belief" to be--that some of what we have been taught, we trust as being true and so use this knowledge to make sense of the world in which we live. Another way to describe the most common understanding of beliefs is as a kind of "filter mechanism" that helps determine how to treat any new information as "true" or false".