Re: knowledge and belief

[Robin Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

>This is imperfect in English as
>the degree is not reducible to a numeric value, but the ordering was
>absolutely consistent among the three native English speakers who were in
>my lab. (So this is an ordinal, but not an interval scale.) Interestingly,
>the one non-native English speaker (native Mandarin speaker) did not agree
>with this analysis, although his English is quite fluent. He opined that
>know/believe/think were synonyms!
>
A Sapir-Whorf effect??

Robin