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What is the difference between faith and gullibility?
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RE: What is the difference between faith and gullibility?
(September 19, 2012 at 6:09 am)CliveStaples Wrote: Hmm. A person is said to be "gullible" if they are "overly" credulous, relative to some standard of what constitutes 'reasonable' credulity given some set of criteria. I think you could distinguish faith from gullibility on these grounds, depending on what you understand "faith" to mean. Let's say that r is the "proper" amount of credulity that X should ascribe to some proposition p, and let k be a "gullibility" constant such that X is gullible with respect to p <=> X ascribes p some credulity greater than r+k.

So, according to this hypothetical standard, X should ascribe p a credulity of r; and if X ascribes p a credulity greater than r+k, then X is gullible. What if X ascribes p a credulity in the interval (r, r+k)? Then X isn't gullible, but X is going "beyond" the evidence for p, so to speak; whether or not this constitutes "faith" depends on what you understand "faith" to mean.

I think your question is unanswerable until you define your terms more clearly.


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RE: What is the difference between faith and gullibility? - by Angrboda - September 19, 2012 at 1:44 pm

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