To some degree, I can not answer some of those follow-up questions in a meaningful way, because
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2) certain answers that readily come to me assume certain truths that people call into question. And I can not convince people of those truths.
(…)True. Though, some people do present themselves as though their opinion is the correct one.
…and that probably also includes me.When you use words like “truths” to describe your beliefs, is it difficult not to think that you present your opinion as the correct one.
It’d be a pretty odd belief if that wasn’t the case tho. I mean believing things are true is sort of why we believe in them 😉
Saying “I believe it is true” is not the same as “I know it is true, I’m 100% sure of that, it is a fact and there are evidences”.
I think you are confusing “fact” with “truth.” When I believe something is true, it is a truth in which I believe. Yes, there are truths that I believe strongly enough in as to treat them as fact. But I can not prove them to be fact in the scientific way that facts, by definition, are proven.