Philosophy

Does belief require a rational ground? Is faith a rational ground?

Does belief require a rational ground? Is faith a rational ground?
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Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

One can have belief without rationality, but the less rationality there is, the more dangerous it is.

What is faith if not belief? How is that not circular logic?

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not saying faith isn’t belief. question is whether faith is a rational ground for belief

I don't see how it possibly could be.

Then again, we believe an awful lot of scientific “truths” that are based on faith if you dig deep enough into the foundational assumptions.

What's the line between a currently unproven hypothesis, and faith?

scientific belief connects with a network of findings and evidence about external reality, and you can provide reasons for why you might believe an unproven hypothesis to be true. faith, almost by definition, concedes an absence of connection to such a network

I disagree. 

Scientific belief is merely a current codification of what were able to measure today. What was once faith, is now science. That bar will continue moving.

The very nature of our external reality, atoms the the presupposition of rationality are all being fiercely debated in scientific literature today.

It’s not quite the same. Scientific belief bottoms out at the requirement that external reality and atoms exist as a rational presupposition so that humans can share ideas and theories that work. Faith doesn’t seem to serve the same function. It’s not a presupposition that makes other theories work.

As I think about it, faith is the last step that bridges a body of evidence to a logical conclusion that is still missing a few piece.

By that definition, almost everything in life requires some faith.

I recognize this is not a typical interpretation of the word today. 

It's often misunderstood and misused imho.