I generally don't read stuff by anosoghjgihdgihfia because it generally starts and ends with him insulting me, but this thread went for a while.
The reason for me specifying "Whichever one believes more strongly in the thing they have no evidence for." is because I wanted to define for sophia_sadek the particular definition of faith I was about to use in the question in the next line.
Words have lots of definitions, and if people are using two different ones, it's hard to have a meaningful conversation. To me, its much more useful to describe the words meanings than shout how stupid someone is for using a different meaning. If they want to use a different meaning than I've heard, that's fine too, as long as I know it's a different meaning. What I'm interested in is talking about the idea that the person is intending to express, not bickering about how well they expressed it.
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Date: 11/6/11 06:51 (UTC)The reason for me specifying "Whichever one believes more strongly in the thing they have no evidence for." is because I wanted to define for sophia_sadek the particular definition of faith I was about to use in the question in the next line.
Words have lots of definitions, and if people are using two different ones, it's hard to have a meaningful conversation. To me, its much more useful to describe the words meanings than shout how stupid someone is for using a different meaning. If they want to use a different meaning than I've heard, that's fine too, as long as I know it's a different meaning. What I'm interested in is talking about the idea that the person is intending to express, not bickering about how well they expressed it.