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Factual Belief vs. Religious Credence - Coggle Diagram
Factual Belief vs. Religious Credence
Belief
(Factual Belief)
Belief examples
Apple falls with gravity.
Humans are mortal.
I locked my door this morning.
3 Characteristics
Practical Setting Independent
Factual beliefs operate in the background across practical setting.
Wherever I am
, I believe apple will fall to the ground.
Operates across practical settings.
Cognitively govern other attitudes.
Facts in another thing can help develop other facts.
ex.
Michelangelo is made out of marble.
Falls off boat.
Will sink.
Factual beliefs form the baseline for how I think the world works.
Cognitively govern other attitudes.
Factual beliefs are vulnerable to evidence.
We believe because of
EVIDENCE.
By Van Der Leeuwen
Beliefs
Separate different kinds of belief.
Better to parse out belief.
Might use
credence = religious category
belief = factual category
Religious Credence
Is context dependent.
It is setting dependent.
Does not apply everywhere.
If believe human ca be an animal.
Then some animals are human.
Reflexive Cognitive Governance
Religious Credence is not vulnerable to evidence, the same way belief is.
People do not believe Jesus rose from facts.
Therefore Aquinas arguments are ineffectual.
3 Characteristics
Religious Credence is normative
How we
SHOULD
be.
Beauty, Truth, Morality
How to be a good person.
Religion is vulnerable to free elaboration.
Take a credence, build/elaborate how you should act in the world.
We now have to elaborate credence to apply it current/modern times.
We won't find info on how to live our modern way with older credence.
We don't do this with Gravity!
Vulnerable to special authority.
Anointed individuals have the ability to tell others how to act / live!
Dangerous?
If we take these results, we can conclude Religious Credence and Factual Belief coexist in the minds of agents same way imaginings and facts coexist.
Religious credence is a reaction to the limits of factual explenation.
Startling because is religion no more than fiction?
People take up religion however due to family, tradition, and community.