Is faith anything other than uncertain belief on incomplete evidence?
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Liu Yutao
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This essay shall attempt to navigate through this ambiguous argument of faith’s veracity, from both a theological standpoint, by naming and analyzing faith based on a model of incomplete evidence, complemented with a more secular account. Furthermore, this essay will strive to demonstrate that Faith can be both something more and less of incomplete evidence: in the believer’s eyes, any evidence could stand as sufficient or incomplete
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Liu Yutao
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[1] Heb. 11:1 (Bible, New King James Version)
[2] Bishop, John, "Faith", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/faith/
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