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    This document discusses the difference between doubt and belief and how beliefs guide our actions. It states that we know when we want to ask a question versus make a judgment because doubting and believing feel different. It provides an example of how the assassins' strong belief that obeying their leader would bring them paradise led them to rush to their deaths at his command. Finally, it concludes that every belief, depending on how strong it is, acts as a habit in our nature that will determine or shape our actions.

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    This document discusses the difference between doubt and belief and how beliefs guide our actions. It states that we know when we want to ask a question versus make a judgment because doubting and believing feel different. It provides an example of how the assassins' strong belief that obeying their leader would bring them paradise led them to rush to their deaths at his command. Finally, it concludes that every belief, depending on how strong it is, acts as a habit in our nature that will determine or shape our actions.

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    This document discusses the difference between doubt and belief and how beliefs guide our actions. It states that we know when we want to ask a question versus make a judgment because doubting and believing feel different. It provides an example of how the assassins' strong belief that obeying their leader would bring them paradise led them to rush to their deaths at his command. Finally, it concludes that every belief, depending on how strong it is, acts as a habit in our nature that will determine or shape our actions.

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    This document discusses the difference between doubt and belief and how beliefs guide our actions. It states that we know when we want to ask a question versus make a judgment because doubting and believing feel different. It provides an example of how the assassins' strong belief that obeying their leader would bring them paradise led them to rush to their deaths at his command. Finally, it concludes that every belief, depending on how strong it is, acts as a habit in our nature that will determine or shape our actions.

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    BELIEF, by: Charles S.

    Pierce

    We generally know when we wish to ask a question and when we wish to


    pronounce a judgment, for there is dissimilarity between the sensation of doubting and
    that of believing. Our beliefs guide our desires and shape our actions.

    The assassins, or the followers of the Old Man in the Mountain, used to rush into
    death at his least command, because they believed that obedience to him would ensure
    everlasting facility. Had they doubted this, they would not have acted as they did.

    So it is with every belief, according to its degree, the feeling of believing is more
    or less sure indication of being established in our nature, some habit which will determine
    our actions.

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