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Re:Digital collectibles / NFTs on Instagram are winding down by pavlov on Sunday April 09, 2023 @06:44AM (#35501475)
> “What's interesting here is that it's not really affecting the perception of people who believe in web3.”

I think that’s the definition of belief: it’s not derived from facts so it can’t be shaken by evidence.

Re:Digital collectibles / NFTs on Instagram are winding down by nverno on Sunday April 09, 2023 @07:04AM (#35501571)
Faith would probably better describe that condition, a very steadfast form of belief.
Re:Digital collectibles / NFTs on Instagram are winding down by baremetal on Sunday April 09, 2023 @07:21AM (#35501677)
not all beliefs are non-factual.[1]

[1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/

Re:Digital collectibles / NFTs on Instagram are winding down by nemosaltat on Sunday April 09, 2023 @10:21AM (#35502961)
And not all “true beliefs” are based on fact. [1]

>At first sight we might imagine that knowledge could be defined as 'true belief'. When what we believe is true, it might be supposed that we had achieved a knowledge of what we believe. But this would not accord with the way in which the word is commonly used. To take a very trivial instance: If a man believes that the late Prime Minister's last name began with a B, he believes what is true, since the late Prime Minister was Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. But if he believes that Mr. Balfour was the late Prime Minister, he will still believe that the late Prime Minister's last name began with a B, yet this belief, though true, would not be thought to constitute knowledge.

[1] THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm#link2...