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Originally Posted by photon
Oh definitely. Belief may be informed by knowledge or it may not be, but belief can be independent of knowledge.
Belief is the psychological state in which a person holds a premise to be true.
Whereas knowledge involves substantiation of that premise, evidence, something you can demonstrate unambiguously to others.
So for the graph you mentioned a gnostic theist, that means a person is both a theist (they believe, they hold the god premise to be true), AND they claim knowledge (they believe because they know (or think they know anyway)).
That's why the four quadrants of the graph, because you can have any combination of both belief (just holding the god proposition to be true) and knowledge (claiming to either know for sure, or not know for sure).
True, though it doesn't have to; often belief is simply the default position on a topic because you were raised in an environment with that belief.
Belief is just holding a premise to be true, regardless of why you hold it to be true.
Right, so you believe, and that belief is derived from knowledge (leaving out the question of the validity of that knowledge, I would argue a lot of people that believe and think they have knowledge actually don't have knowledge).
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I'll go back to that there is a distinction between belief and knowledge. Belief like I said can be second hand (your default position is second hand) or in another case, it can be from a remembrance, like I had a cool experience last week, or last month or last year, etc. So I'm relying on this memory for my belief.
For me, knowledge is what you're experiencing right now and is a part of you, no belief needed or more apt belief has nothing to do with it. Your mind might even say this isn't happening, but it is.