GRGR(4) Re: Pynchon's Faith

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> That was not at all clear in rj's earlier posts. The objection to my
> original post turns out to center on a hair-splitting distinction between
> "thoughts" and "beliefs". I used the terms loosely, interchangeably, as
> people often do in everyday discourse; I  include "opinions" in the same
> semantic neighborhood.

A belief  in addition to being a thought more often than not carries the
idea of judgement, credulity, faith, doctrine, or piety. Would you be
willing to accept that you interchanged  the terms not only loosely but to
fudge meaning more than an insignificant amount? A simple yes or no
answer will suffice.

				P.