True. Believing doesn’t grant more options, but if you truly believe in an afterlife, then this is not a question that would concern you: you believe you have a better option. :)
If you believe in an afterlife, the question that concerns you is still whether there is an afterlife, not whether you believe in an afterlife. So you still should worry about the hypothetical of there being an afterlife, which you’d assign more probability, not about the hypothetical of you believing in an afterlife.
If you believe in an afterlife, the question that concerns you is still whether there is an afterlife, not whether you believe in an afterlife.
I think we are assigning different meanings to “believe”. In my sense, a true believer has no doubt, so “whether” is no longer a question. I think we may be getting sidetracked on semantics, though.
True. Believing doesn’t grant more options, but if you truly believe in an afterlife, then this is not a question that would concern you: you believe you have a better option. :)
If you believe in an afterlife, the question that concerns you is still whether there is an afterlife, not whether you believe in an afterlife. So you still should worry about the hypothetical of there being an afterlife, which you’d assign more probability, not about the hypothetical of you believing in an afterlife.
I think we are assigning different meanings to “believe”. In my sense, a true believer has no doubt, so “whether” is no longer a question. I think we may be getting sidetracked on semantics, though.