Re: knowledge and belief

[Steven Belknap <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>]

>>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

No, as the issue was disagreement by the native Chinese speaker regarding
the meaning of English words, rather than a difference in thinking between
the native-Chinese English speaker and American English speakers.

-Steven


Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria