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People can believe in unempirical things. That's a fact -- an empirical one, if you like. The standard theory that treats beliefs as linguistic, sentence-like things can handle such beliefs.. The question is whether the Possible Experience theory can.
Ah, I think I see what you're saying. We're getting tangled up about the meaning of the word "belief" (also about faelore, but we'll ignore that for now).
If someone speaks of a flour-permeable dragon, would you say they "believe" the dragon exists? I think most people here wouldn't. But it's just a disagreement about a word.