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I execute, operate, perform, and act skeptically on things I decide are useful tentative hypotheses.
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Sorry Art, I missed this part of your initial post - which manages to say in two lines what took me the same number of paragraphs.
In return I'd say that beliefs (things that we hold to be true) are the axioms of these models we build. The models we build provide a scaffold on which to hang our experiences, the better constructed the scaffold, the better inferences we can make about things we don't know - we can make educated guesses, and feel secure enough to take chances on them.
Of course, if our beliefs are wrong, our educated guesses are likely to be too, increasing the chances that our gambles in life are going to fail.