RE: Question about "faith"
September 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm by Belacqua.)
(September 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm)Sal Wrote: There's no proposition in faith (nor is it able to make such Stuff) which can be argued against/for.
Here you're using the word "faith" to mean something like "unsupported belief."
That may be a common way to use the word. But to be clear, John is not using it that way.
Having faith in a dentist is a proposition that may be argued for or against. That she has a good reputation, and has always done good work for me in the past, serves as evidence for my argument that faith in the dentist is justified.
I moved to Chicago, and the evidence was clear that the post office didn't deliver properly. So I lost faith in the post office there, though its existence was never in doubt. I moved to Japan, and all my mail got through. So I gained faith in the Japanese post office. This faith or lack of faith was based on clear experiential evidence.