Yes, but I think making the distinction that way is going to be much harder for many people outside this community. I know very few people who don’t read this website who even have any sort of probabilistic conception of “evidence” and “belief,” and I have had (very conventionally well educated in STEM fields) people get angry at me for talking about things that way.
We are familiar with the ideas of rational evidence, scientific evidence, legal evidence, and so on, screening off some types of evidence for certain purposes, but most people aren’t, at least not explicitly, and as far as I can tell have no idea that that’s what our societal institutions are doing or why.
Yes, but I think making the distinction that way is going to be much harder for many people outside this community. I know very few people who don’t read this website who even have any sort of probabilistic conception of “evidence” and “belief,” and I have had (very conventionally well educated in STEM fields) people get angry at me for talking about things that way.
We are familiar with the ideas of rational evidence, scientific evidence, legal evidence, and so on, screening off some types of evidence for certain purposes, but most people aren’t, at least not explicitly, and as far as I can tell have no idea that that’s what our societal institutions are doing or why.