forum for week of 12 September

I don't think that can be straightforwardly answered. There are different categories of belief. Our mental perception of the world is the way it is because we have built up a system of beliefs over time to create that certain perspective. And no one can say that that certain perspective is wrong. No one can know really what our perspective is. Our beliefs about ourselves and who we are, are obviously biased and whatever it is we believe to be true about ourselves is the reality we create about ourselves and therefore the reality of the way we live our lives. There are however belief systems about the earth and the structure of the earth and the way it was formed like the geographical features of our planet for example, or the laws of nature (like gravity or electromagnetism). So say someone says the force of gravity is 9.5 m/s while it is actually 9.8 m/s. In an instance like that they are clearly wrong. So it really depends on the situation. I think unique situations have unique answers and we can't try to generalize and categorize. I don't think there is ever one unifying answer, we have to look at a specific situation and then develop a specific unique answer.