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Originally Posted by Gifted Fish
I suspect the difference between "knowledge" and "belief" is simply an assessment of various grades of belief. Did Joseph "know" he saw God and Jesus or did he "believe" he did? We all probably say he knew because of sensory perception with his eyes and ears, but a spiritual manifestation would typically be called a belief by most absent some extraordinary experience.
Having listened to two sides of a lawsuit each claim that they "know" what they saw or what was said really amounts to nothing more than an expression of their belief in what they saw/heard after the passage of time.
I like William James' discussion of the topic in "The Varieties of Religious Experience." He explains much more eloquently than I ever could the difference/similarity between these methods of perception.
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