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by evgwugegwhwgeg 682 days ago
Knowledge is seeing a white pattern in visual field.

Belief is labeling the pattern and calling it a sheep.

Belief is also the labeling the pattern a Komondor.

Belief is thinking there is a person seeing the sheep.

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> Knowledge is seeing a white pattern in visual field.

That definition classifies every dream I have dreamed, every video I've seen, every game I've played, as "knowledge".

If anything, it is an easier thing to dismiss than the examples you give as "beliefs".

See "naive realism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_realism

Can beliefs exist without sensory inputs?

Also isn't dismissal also just another belief?

1. Dreams, so probably yes

2. I'm saying everything is