"Modal Infallibility" and the concept of a necessary being

[GrowingSmaller]

Pragmatism. Will that stop me from endlessly walking into things?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Persoanally I prefer the square to the diamond. It makes me feel more secure.

 

[variant]

well, believing, as well as doubting, are forms of thinking, so, no its not possible, to believe something without thinking; and thing is about as undefined a word as you can get. Come on, don't tell me you really think there is any possibility that nothing at all exists.

I don't care much for modal arguments, they often are just sophistry I think. I'm more into pragmatism; I figure if there's a decent amount of evidence for something and it works well, might as well believe it.

That's just hiding the premise that what we define as thinking corresponds to a reality that we are accurately viewing.

We can define believing and doubting as thinking but we are free to be wrong in terms of those definitions corresponding to any given reality. Our definitions of what is going on is are free to be off base.

(I say I think) =/ (I think)

All we can say is that we are convinced that we are thinking from our perspective, which doesn't lack room for doubt.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

At what age does a child come to know what "thinking" is?