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How Our Experiences Influence Our Beliefs

Our time here is an aggregate of experiences.

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Life as a whole is, arguably, one aggregate experience that is influenced relatively through a countless thread of individual experiences that molds one into the person that they become. As a person lives their life, any situation that they encounter inevitably changes that person as they include situations to their already massive collection of experiences. With experience, a person will learn more about the outside world; the world in which they dwell and share with billions of other people who endure through their own experiences that make up their own relative journey in search for personal identity.

An experience in the context in which it has been and will be used can be defined as practical contact with and the observation of events. Essentially experiences are, whether directly or indirectly, visualized by a person through which they form a perception based on the situation; a perception in this context being a manner in which one interprets an experience so that one can better understand said experience through their interpretation. This perception formulated by the experience then allows the person to have an intuitive understanding concerning that certain situation, which could then allow that person to have insight not only on that one particular situation but also with related situations that provide the backbone for that specific individual to concoct a belief.

A commonly recognized definition of belief is described as an acceptance or acknowledgment that a statement is true or that something exists. In other words, one could reason that a statement can be accepted as being either true or false based on one's perception of the statement. The perception of the statement, as outlined above, can be and most unobjectively obtained out of constant experience within the realm to which the particular statement belongs. As one continues to experience, the resulted effects from what is experienced can manifest into a view on the outside world that can be used by the individual in relatively determining the validity of a claim.

Experience is used indubitably by individuals of the world to aid them in analyzing the outside occurrences among temporal activities in every category of thought. The analysis of events, even those that one does not directly experience, are utilized as means dictating what mankind as a whole should potentially do in order for life of everyone on earth to live in harmony. However, it is unreasonable to say that relative experiences can lead to infallible beliefs. From this fact, it is improbable that one day every belief will be shared and respected by the entirety of humanity, no matter how fallacious of a belief an individual holds, but one can hope.

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