> I can draw on to “have faith my car will start”, whereas “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence”. I have some bad news for you:

> I can draw on to “have faith my car will start”, whereas “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence”. I have some bad news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism The implementation of reality/"reality" is Indirect Realism, but you experience it and (implicitly) assert it to be Direct Realism, due (in part) to the ideology you are "subscribed" to, whether you know it or not. Your ideology has taught you to respond with (predictable) memes, perhaps we will now get to see them and I will increment my counters. Oh, in case you "don't know what I'm talking about": > whereas “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence” You think you are referring to reality, but you are actually referring to the model of reality contained within your mind, the composition of which is what you have been trained on by your culture, ideology, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cognition/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cogn... (I could go on and on and on...there is so much for you to learn, if you still have adequate ability.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning The sad part about Western Civilization, Planet Earth, 2024, is that there are some conceptual spaces (the one we are in right now) where you are "disallowed" (it's complicated) from using science and the scientific method to figure out what is going on, because either of the two are more than capable enough to figure this out on your own....what I am saying can be learned directly from science.