But it's only faith if you lack evidence. As in, if your evidence is insufficient - if your belief is irrational.
And your experience from your life so far, that your senses are reliable, is evidence to their validity. Certainly nothing lacking in evidence there. Far from it.
And the senses have been studied by science you know... as well as scientists using them to observe the world when they apply the scientific method
Belief that doesn't lack evidence is just trusting in the evidence. "Faith" is different to trust. You can trust in anything, but "faith" also carries the religious connotation - and of lacking evidence. "Faith" goes further than merely trusting. Trusting can be rational or irrational. Faith, being belief that lacks evidence - is necessarily irrational in the definition I'm using. And I use this definition to seperate it from trust because trust is broader, and if you're going to use "faith" to simply mean "trust" which is a lot broader and not irrational belief that lacks evidence, then why don't you just say "trust"? It confuses issues less if you say "trust" because "faith" can be thought of as religious faith, as lacking evidence, as irrational, etc.. - whereas trust is just trust.
EvF
And your experience from your life so far, that your senses are reliable, is evidence to their validity. Certainly nothing lacking in evidence there. Far from it.
And the senses have been studied by science you know... as well as scientists using them to observe the world when they apply the scientific method
Belief that doesn't lack evidence is just trusting in the evidence. "Faith" is different to trust. You can trust in anything, but "faith" also carries the religious connotation - and of lacking evidence. "Faith" goes further than merely trusting. Trusting can be rational or irrational. Faith, being belief that lacks evidence - is necessarily irrational in the definition I'm using. And I use this definition to seperate it from trust because trust is broader, and if you're going to use "faith" to simply mean "trust" which is a lot broader and not irrational belief that lacks evidence, then why don't you just say "trust"? It confuses issues less if you say "trust" because "faith" can be thought of as religious faith, as lacking evidence, as irrational, etc.. - whereas trust is just trust.
EvF
