Charles D Hixson said: But religious beliefs *ARE* intrinsically different from rational beliefs. They aren't the only such belief, but they are among them. Rational beliefs MUST be founded in other beliefs. Rationalism does not provide a basis for generating beliefs ab initio, but only via reason, which requires both axioms and rules of inference. ---------------------------- I think we are talking about two different levels of generalization. (This issue of the level of generalization is a big deal to me and is part of my theory of AGI and NLP.) I meant that some aspects of faith are reasonable and rational. Your comment is interesting. I would like to write more about this once I have a little more time. Jim Bromer
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