Believers experience their truths as felt certainty, not testable belief.

Evidence

Believers usually have a very far-reaching certainty in their felt truths. So for them, the crucial question is not whether their beliefs are true, but why others do not accept them. An obvious accusation against scientifically thinking people is that they are not able to understand in their mechanistic world view why a certain alternative therapy works or in which way one is telepathically connected with distant or deceased soul mates. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 768

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘felt truths’ as distinct from evidence-based belief.
• XREF: connects to: Faith is the longing for faith, not perception of God’s presence. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 235

Related

• True believers hold convictions as unquestionable faith, not fallible knowledge (similarity 0.88)
• Believers view science as fixed dogma while seeing beliefs as personal experience (similarity 0.84)
• Faith is the longing for faith, not perception of God’s presence. (similarity 0.83)
• Theoretical doubts about objective truth need not override practical reliance on evidence (similarity 0.80)
• Belief is a pseudo-concept always attributed to other people, never oneself. (similarity 0.79)
• Sincere belief shapes action regardless of the belief’s actual truth. (similarity 0.79)
• Faith offers an understanding of life that contrasts with rational knowledge. (similarity 0.78)
• Truth emerges only after doubt makes information improbable (similarity 0.78)