Belief and Certainty

Belief - information which a person trusts to be true without evidence.

Certainty - indisputable, lacking any doubt that something is true.

Belief allows for there to be bias and a broader scope for outcomes.

Certainty is cold hard fact and cannot be argued.

People can be certain in their beliefs.

The main difference between the two is that there is indisputable physical evidence for certainty.

Therefore we can use these terms to distinguish between a fact that a person cannot argue against and a theory which a person trusts without evidence.

Many beliefs are backed by emotional or spiritual evidence which is not tanglible and impossible to verify.

Beliefs and certainty sometimes contradict each other (we have so far found no other life forms in the galaxy yet some people believe in aliens) so just because a certainty can be supported with evidence does not mean it is the stronger argument of the two concepts.

Knowledge is Justified Belief

If i say that i think that aliens are real, this does not make it a fact. Truth is independant of what people think is true because truth is fact and people do not always base decisions on fact, especially when there is no available evidence.

Knowing something is typically a trait of living beings. A computer cannot know something because it has no mind of its own to make a conscious decision to believe the information it holds.

a - certain
b - certain
c - probable
d - probable
e - possible
f - certain
g - possible
h - possible