(October 15, 2014 at 12:06 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I'd just be happier without the equivocation between faith based on reasonable expectations, and faith based on absolutely nothing. It's the false dichotomy I object to; if you want to define faith as a lack of certainty then... whatever. I just want people to not pretend that this makes every kind of faith exactly equal.
You can never know for sure with the chair. Certainly in every day scenarios. The chair shows that there are varying degrees of faith. Faith based on absolutely nothing isn't faith at all. There has to be some basis. Misplaced faith might be overconfidence.
