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Plato's Epistemology: Is Faith a Valid Way to Know?
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RE: Plato's Epistemology: Is Faith a Valid Way to Know?
(July 2, 2018 at 11:29 am)SteveII Wrote: Knowledge is a belief that is true because there are good reasons to think it is true.  

Catholics (the real ones) 'know' that transubstantiation of bread and wine into the flesh and blood of Jesus actually takes place. Then theirs the other mob with the flying horse. That is not knowledge that is belief.

Quote:Faith is a belief based on confidences (warranted or unwarranted) that some state of affairs is correct. 

Faith is not a belief. Faith is the ultimate cheap trick, the joker in the pack you people whip out whenever your litany of tired old apologetics has run its course. Faith is the smokescreen you all hide behind when the heat gets to hot.
Your faith is as convincing as the spot the lady trick done with plastic buckets and cabbages.

Quote:Everybody has plenty of both categories of belief.

Let me think about that...



No.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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