I believe the Earth orbits the sun despite not actually knowing how this was determined or looking at the evidence.
This is not an article of faith coz it comes under the umbrella of provisionally accepting scientific consensus while knowing much will be disproved. @gm_palmer
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I do not have faith that the Earth orbits the sun. I don't care much whether it does or doesn't & am willing to stop believing so if evidence requires it. I recognise that this is a consensus of scientists who study this stuff & that they tend to be more right than everyone else
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This is much different (not totally, but much) in the social sciences though due to the means we have to know something, no? It’s often not causal. I’d say this matters because this is the domain of most societal, political level arguments.
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Faith is not a commitment to a position without evidence. It's trust in something. It can be trust in a thing with incomplete evidence but ALL evidence is inherently incomplete. What we call evidence of a thing is a metaphor for understanding it.
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