as for "not true but held on trust" it's easy to see that things which have yet to pass fall into this category (they are not facts; they cannot be as they have not yet come to pass!) Yet misapplying this to things which have already happened gives the impression of fallacy.
You are erecting a standard of proof never possible, and this is arguing in bad faith! the trust in senses and accounts with regards to facts is different in kind than that regarding revealed truths. In fact, revelations are often given in a "factual" form - concrete visions.
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It's different only in the sense that the latter is a theological virtue, but not fundamentally different. Belief in the exterior world's correspondance to normal sense perception is just faith that e.g. God is not a deceiver, and the world is part of his self-revelation..
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this is not faith though! People do not have faith in their senses in any literal sense, Duff! This is an analogy or metaphor! If we treat this, we end up as academic skeptics; claiming all sense is held by faith but functioning - like everyone does - with immediate sense.
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What mechanism are you implying can yield the truth that our senses reliably map the exterior world, other than faith?
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dude... that is what our senses do, insofar as they are functioning correctly. There is no actual intermediary layer (although we are able to impose one when things seem odd to us--) but we are limited to what our senses detect, obviously.
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There is no way to know that they do, is the point. I agree that they do because God is not a deceiver. How would I know that this is what they do sans this faith? Why can't I be a brain in a vat being lied to?
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This is pure Enlightenment f*ckery, my bro!
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Which is why I am not positing it. I am asking how someone who doesnt acknowledge the epistemological necessity of faith (i.e. not me who does) answers the question, and escapes the skeptical critique.
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they simply do what they always do, see it as a metaphysical claim which seems to them to not be "in" what the see, and reject it
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