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This was my philosophy for a long time. The fact of someone believing something is evidence. It's not evidence necessarily that the thing they believe is true; it may not say anything about the thing they believe; but it is evidence about their mind and about the events in the world that affected their mind. Belief is a cognitive event; it isn't outside of cause-and-effect.
Past-tense?
Used to be more so, because I had a huge problem in seeing anyone else as wrong, so I had to twist my mind in order to make their input "true" in some sense even if not in a meaningful sense. You could say my philosophy used to be the strong version of this and is now a weaker version...
Wow, that is fascinating, sort of like a gory wound is fascinating. I wish I could peer inside an attitude like that to examine it.