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A centum of verbs for the sake of articulating our beliefs as more than mere feelings, for eschewing that ubiquitous expression, "I just feel...". It's worth calling a spade a spade when we are asserting some proposition, not just emoting truthiness. And yet, ironically, at bottom, even well-justified and well-reasoned beliefs do indeed rely upon intuitions, upon seemings. Yes, even the sum of two and two being four is grounded in our irresistibly strong intuition that it is so. And likewise, believing that there are four apples before me is grounded in it seeming that they are there. Nonetheless, though our basic beliefs are inescapably intuitional, Klement's distinction between believing versus feeling truth is well-taken and will save a trip to the thesaurus.