#philosophy
Beliefs.
What is Belief?
“Beliefs are vague and complex, pointing not to one precise fact, but to several vague regions of fact.
Beliefs, therefore, unlike the schematic propositions of logic, are not sharply opposed as true or false, but are a blur of truth and falsehood; they are of varying shades of grey, never white or black.
People who speak with reverence of the ‘Truth’ would do better to speak about Fact, and to realise that the reverend qualities to which they pay homage are not to be found in human beliefs.”
– Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928).
