A conceptual guide on the importance of belief statements

 I am a skeptic much to my dismay. So, the argument of this paper will be focused on luminance (knowing what we know). I believe that we know very little. The thing that brings me great concern is the nature with which I hear my peers and others speaking. It seems they do not share this sentiment, as they state belief as if it is fact. Everyone seems to be so sure of their cognitive faculties. Yet, Descartes and many others have shown that these faculties have led us astray many times before. I fear that we as humans do not have the correct cognitive capacities to understand absolute truth. So, the fact that we often speak as though we do is of great worry to me. The manner of these thoughts has us arguing over things that cannot be known (yet, or maybe ever) instead of things that can be. I am not suggesting that these sorts of discussions should be removed outright, but the nature in which they are done requires revision. These discussions pose a danger to the structure and validity of science, philosophy, politics, and possibly other fields. Thus, I believe it to be important to reconstruct the way these subjects are thought about and discussed if they are to progress.