MatthewB comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong
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I wish that were the case, but it seems to me that the "I have no beliefs" crowd that I am familiar with means that they have no beliefs for which P<1.
In other words, they either know something with absolute certainty, or they give it no credence whatsoever.
I can't think of how many times I have told them that they need to both reclaim the word "Belief" and to understand that they have many things for which P≠1 (P<1, but greater than .5, or some other arbitrary number for which they will accept some information as being true).
Yet, sometimes the certainties of faith get assumed by those without faith (of the religious kind)