This statement has much more in common with Christian thought than many who espouse it realise
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I liked Matt Dillahunty's line, ‘I try to believe as many true things and as few false things as I can’. I think it's fine to use the term ‘belief’ for as part of the things you ‘accept’ - but yeah for me it's always provisional, based on trust built up over time.
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But yeah, I realise that trying to understand a system from the inside is always going to be an imperfect process. While I think there are ways to make it more reliable (eg. with skepticsm, critical thing, the scientific method, etc) it pays to be pretty humble about the limits.
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But yeah I think there might be some analogy to be drawn with how we can still do mathematics reliably and come up with new and interesting stuff in the face of the incompleteness of our formal systems? But I'm not an expert in this stuff - more 'shower thought' territory.
Ugh might be a bit sloppy with my use of ‘our formal systems’. I guess I would just urge care here – incompleteness is something people can sometimes invoke pretty carelessly which is why I put a disclaimer at the end. Haven't really thought this stuff though very carefully.
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