What makes these additional beliefs seem so strange—what makes them seem, in fact, so unbelief-like—is that there is no experience associated with holding them. Believing that my mattress is solid doesn’t feel like believing in God, largely because believing that my mattress is solid doesn’t feel like anything. I am completely unaware of believing it. Left to my own devices, I’m extremely unlikely to characterize it as a belief, and, if I’m called upon to defend it, I will be both baffled as to why I should do so and at a loss as to how to go about it. In other words, almost everything we
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