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  • What is your degree of belief in the idea that belief should be represented as degrees rather than binary? Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 17:23
  • @Baby_philosopher 1-epsilon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon) Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 18:20
  • Belief in philosophy can be represented in a tertiary way (Belief, Disbelief, Suspension) or as degrees of belief as you stated. How can you justify representing belief in degrees vs. absolutes? You can’t use a degree of belief to justify that since that is the very notion in question. Commented Feb 3, 2024 at 3:13
  • @Baby_philosopher Belief and Disbelief are not distinct, there is a spectrum with complete belief at one end and complete disbelief at the other. Suspension is denial of having a belief, so you can't call that a belief either. Philosophy seems to like exploiting vagueness in definitions, I am primarily a statistician with an interest in philosophy and I don't tend to find that kind of discussion productive or interesting. It is easy to justify degrees rather than absolute beliefs, "je pense donc je suis" shows we can't have completely certain knowledge of anything regarding the real world Commented Feb 3, 2024 at 15:17
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    hence there is no rational basis for claiming absolute (dis-)belief. Commented Feb 3, 2024 at 15:18