virus: Re: virus-digest V3 #63

Reed Konsler (konsler@ascat.harvard.edu)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:45:13 -0500

>Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 13:39:17 -0500
>From: "Eric Boyd" <6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca>
>Subject: Re: virus: Haven't we been around this bend before?
>
>Hi,
>
>From: Reed Konsler <konsler@ascat.harvard.edu>
>>"Faith is a disciplined way of thinking, its purpose is to create
>>a useful model of the world."
>
>I don't see how this is a definition of faith. A better one would be:
>
>Faith is a disciplined way of thinking, its purpose is to maintain and
>strengthen belief in ones current model of the world.

Sure, but if you'll look back a Jake's posts, he points out that pan-critical rationalism is a great way of creating a resilient self-consistent worldview...interrogate each link, replace those which are flawed, test the whole...in other words:

"Reason is a disciplined way of thinking, its purpose is to maintain and strengthen belief in ones current model of the world."

Again...there are differences...sure, there are differences. But, at the core, at the level of resolution accessible in a single sentence or a short rant on e-mail, they are more alike than dissimilar.

Try and step beyond: "Reason good, faith bad, me name Og"

Reed 

  Reed Konsler                        konsler@ascat.harvard.edu
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