forum for week of 19 September

I don't believe the slogan of Clifford's is really that strong, in fact I think it is pretty obvious. You should not believe things that do not have enough evidence to be worthy of belief seems pretty basic. However once you get into what makes evidence sufficient it can get tricky. We can never truly know anything with 100% certainty, so my question for William James would be where does information become sufficient. I know he discusses various types of beliefs and why or why not we should believe them but he seems skeptical of most if not all of them. So should we just disgard them? Does tradition for example have other uses other than a formation of beliefs?