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Originally Posted by d*d
If there were no way to ever prove the result one way or the other, then the question "do you believe that this coin landed heads up?" would be one that I could not prove one way or the other and could only answer on faith alone, if there were nothing to suggest to me that it landed heads up I would answer the question "do you believe that this coin landed heads up?" - no,
but I would also answer the question "do you NOT believe that this coin landed heads up?" - no because there would be nothing to suggest it not land heads up.
do you believe in god? - no
do you not believe in god? - no
are not contradictory, so you can answer "no" to this poll, however Zyr is right and it means that the "no" will also mean "don't know"
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Yeah, this was pretty much the point I was making. But I was also showing that people often do
not use language in this sense, but rather in the sense described in the first example. E.G. take the common phrase
"I don't believe it!". Hence the reason for the confusion about the poll.