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Faith vs Truth (2)

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posted Friday, 25 November 2005
The following questions need to be answered with regard to faith:

  • What is faith?
  • Is faith a rational quantifiable phenomenon, or is faith an abstract human experience?
  • Is faith a) a wish/ hope for something to be true b) an affirmation of something we know to be true or c) something that is completely unrelated to truth, and in fact, I can have faith in something that I know to be false

Based on the above:
  • Is faith a “place holder” for truth, ie we will have faith until I no longer need it, because I know now that that statement x is true?
  • Is there an “expiry date” on faith? Ie I will only have faith for y amount of time, where after if the statement is not known to be true I will declare that statement to be false?
These questions will serve as a background for the real purpose of these posts, examining the Jewish tradition and its relationship to faith.

To be continued...


comments (2)


1. micha left...
Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:19 am :: http:/www.aishdas.org

I don't understand the title. Truth is an ontological statement -- is it reality or not. Emunah is an epistomological statement -- do I trust the truth of this notion or not?

You seem to be attempting to reinvent the discipline of epistomology from scratch. It might be better to look up belief and knowledge in wikipedia (not faith, as emunah is different in implication than faith) and start from there.


2. Rael Levinsohn left...
Wednesday, 30 November 2005 2:11 am :: http://www.emet.blog-city.com

"You seem to be attempting to reinvent the discipline of epistomolgy from scratch"

Hehehe, well put. I realised after this post that I was kind of taking something on board that was a bit over my head, so I decided to go straight into my Marc Shapiro Series. I hope to come back to some of these ideas, but in a more narrowly defined context, specific to Marc Shapiros work