What is a belief? According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, there exists three different definitions for belief: “something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion : something believed”, “a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing” and “conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence”. While each of these definitions describe what a belief is (in a general way), this paper is going to focus on five different specific beliefs: strong, weak, true, false, and subjective beliefs. In addition, this paper will also acknowledge two peculiar kinds of knowledge, both personal and factual.
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A true belief is a thought that, in the end, is the correct belief. For example, if an individual said, “The Philadelphia Eagles are going to win the Superbowl on February 4, 2018.”(prior to the game). In this case, the individual would have a true belief. Conversely, if an individual were to say the Patriots were to win that game, he/she would have a false belief. Since ultimately what he/she predicted was incorrect. A strong belief exists when an individual fully believes in something. For example, if someone said, “I fully believe in a God without a doubt in my mind” this would be a strong belief. But if someone said, “I believe in a God I guess, I go back and forth on it” this would be an example of a weak belief. A subjective belief is a thought that an individual has regarding a particular event. For example, if a person were to push a box and believe it was heavy, it would be their subjective belief that it is (since someone with larger muscles could have said it was an easier push). Factual knowledge is knowledge confirmed through facts. If a person were to say that George Washington was the first U.S. president, that would be verifiable and would be factual knowledge. Finally, a personal knowledge exists when an individual believes in something that cannot be explained by fact alone, a justification that only the individual knows. For example, an individual could say that his/her …show more content…
One of the men, Dean Keaton, is hurt very badly and talks with the other man. Dean gets shot by the other man and as the other man leaves. Before departing the ship, the other man lights it on fire. As the police find the scene, there are two people alive: a badly burned man and a man named Verbal Kint, who has cerebral palsy. A detective named Dave Kujan brings Verbal to his office and begins to interrogate him. Verbal explains to him how he and four other men came together (Dean Keaton included) and performed a job. When they came back, a lawyer named Kobayashi advises them that each man had unknowingly hurt Keyser Soze in the past, a mythical criminal who nobody could recognize(only a few people even knew what he looked like). The Lawyer tells that them that if they do one job for Soze, that their past mistakes will be forgiven and they will get a considerable sum of money. When doing the job (which was on the boat that was in the first scene), each of the four different men are killed and the final one, Kint, witnesses Soze kill Keaton. When Kint finishes his story, Kujan does not believe him. He believes that Keaton was the mastermind behind everything. Kujan believes that Keaton was, in fact, Keyser Soze. Kint at first denies it, then confesses that Keaton had led them all along. Kint finishes the interrogation and leaves. As Kujan gazes around the office, he notices that
A true belief is a thought that, in the end, is the correct belief. For example, if an individual said, “The Philadelphia Eagles are going to win the Superbowl on February 4, 2018.”(prior to the game). In this case, the individual would have a true belief. Conversely, if an individual were to say the Patriots were to win that game, he/she would have a false belief. Since ultimately what he/she predicted was incorrect. A strong belief exists when an individual fully believes in something. For example, if someone said, “I fully believe in a God without a doubt in my mind” this would be a strong belief. But if someone said, “I believe in a God I guess, I go back and forth on it” this would be an example of a weak belief. A subjective belief is a thought that an individual has regarding a particular event. For example, if a person were to push a box and believe it was heavy, it would be their subjective belief that it is (since someone with larger muscles could have said it was an easier push). Factual knowledge is knowledge confirmed through facts. If a person were to say that George Washington was the first U.S. president, that would be verifiable and would be factual knowledge. Finally, a personal knowledge exists when an individual believes in something that cannot be explained by fact alone, a justification that only the individual knows. For example, an individual could say that his/her …show more content…
One of the men, Dean Keaton, is hurt very badly and talks with the other man. Dean gets shot by the other man and as the other man leaves. Before departing the ship, the other man lights it on fire. As the police find the scene, there are two people alive: a badly burned man and a man named Verbal Kint, who has cerebral palsy. A detective named Dave Kujan brings Verbal to his office and begins to interrogate him. Verbal explains to him how he and four other men came together (Dean Keaton included) and performed a job. When they came back, a lawyer named Kobayashi advises them that each man had unknowingly hurt Keyser Soze in the past, a mythical criminal who nobody could recognize(only a few people even knew what he looked like). The Lawyer tells that them that if they do one job for Soze, that their past mistakes will be forgiven and they will get a considerable sum of money. When doing the job (which was on the boat that was in the first scene), each of the four different men are killed and the final one, Kint, witnesses Soze kill Keaton. When Kint finishes his story, Kujan does not believe him. He believes that Keaton was the mastermind behind everything. Kujan believes that Keaton was, in fact, Keyser Soze. Kint at first denies it, then confesses that Keaton had led them all along. Kint finishes the interrogation and leaves. As Kujan gazes around the office, he notices that