I’m not interested in what the dictionary says or a textbook definition I’m interested in your personal distinction between the two ideas. How do you decide to put an idea in one category versus the other? I’m not interested in the abstract concepts like ‘objective truth’ I want to know how it works in real life for you.

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    9 hours ago

    Just to help, you can’t have knowledge about something that is based around faith. For example, the Bible requires faith for you to believe in God, however you can have extensive knowledge about what the Bible says without actually believing any of the religious bullshit.

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      8 hours ago

      One could argue that the more knowledge one has of the bible, the greater degree of faith one needs to believe in it.

      At some point on that linear curve, a make or break decision needs to be made. Here, I made a graph: