A belief is never to be proven wrong...or right.  
Beliefs are not to be proven or disproven by events
since they can't be used to verify reality.  When
events correspond to beliefs, it's a matter of luck
and probability. 

Whether or not your razor was on the sink has nothing
to do with your belief that it was.  In your case, the
fact that it wasn't  proved that your belief was a
irrelevant.  Your memory was mistaken. Now is memory a
belief? Why?  

More complicated for me is the possibility that
beliefs underlie all consciousness and actions.  We
first believe in the moment and then we (expect to)
live it.  We first believe we will say something and
then we say it.  In other words, our anticipation and
our fictional imagining of the immanent (analogous to
"just in time" assembly plants) permits us to
experience the stream of moments we create.  Yes, I
believe we create a fictional story first and then
live it, and trust to luck.   In the case of your
razor your story turned out to be contradicted by
events (and their causality did not depend on belief
but could've been traced by you if your memory was
accurate.  In short, the causality of actuality is not
dependent on beliefs.  If I'm mistaken in that then
it's a matter of logic not belief. But I believe I'm
right.

WC
 
 
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> "It is a mistake to reason that belief can be
> mistaken."
> 
> I like to think, William, that you wouldn't stand
> for this Heidegger-mode 
> intentionally occult b.s. from anyone else on the
> forum.
> 
> Say I believe my razor is on the sink in my
> bathroom. Then I see it on the 
> shelf in the shower. From that, I reason my belief
> must have been mistaken.
> 
> If you say, "But that's not what I meant by 'reason'
> or 'belief' or 
> mistaken'," I claim you've supplied another instance
> of a misplaced faith in the 
> dependability of
>
words-without-a-description-of-the-notion-behind-them
> to convey 
> what we have in mind.
> 
> The early analytic philosophers were wrong to think
> ALL confusion in 
> philosophy is a matter of fuzzy language, so, if we
> just cure language-and-its-use, 
> all philosophical problems will dissolve. But MANY
> confusions are indeed the 
> result of inherent faultiness in language,
> compounded by cloudy using of the 
> faulty tool. Which is why I continue to beat what
> you call a 'dead horse'.    
> 
> 
> 
> 
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