I'm not sure how priorities are relevant to the mindset with which you approach things.Whether ur epistemology is faith or evidence
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You could believe things which others see as nonsense, but because you don't prioritise them you don't apply scepticism to them.
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Replying to @pogsurf
No. If I believe in things without evidence, I am not a sceptic. Whether I prioritise them or not.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But you said you hadn't applied scepticism to everything you believed. Some things you just take on trust.
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Replying to @pogsurf
Difference between 'believing in' & believing in the sense of taking on trust. I think it very probable my husband loves me.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @pogsurf
So I cld say 'I believe my husband loves me' but this not the same as 'believing in.'I believe in my husband coz evidence he exists
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Replying to @HPluckrose @pogsurf
Or perhaps u're thinking of my saying I believe things my friends tell me coz I just assume they're true.If so,I see ur point a bit
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Replying to @HPluckrose @pogsurf
But in practice, truth claims do need to be significant to warrant scepticism and there is a consensus on what is significant.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @pogsurf
If my friend says 'I went to the supermarket today,' there is no need to practice scepticism coz going to supermarket is ordinary.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Until you discover your friend is cheating on her husband.
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There! Something like that. There's a consensus that this is significant. Someone cld require evidence in this case.
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