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How does one distinguish faith from delusion?

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08-18-2009 7:18 PM

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Please see Message 140.
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08-19-2009 6:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 266 by Modulous
08-19-2009 6:04 PM

Re: epistemology
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It doesn't seem (to the likes of us) like anyone could seriously propose a method of establishing truths about the world in this fashion, but Consensus gentium is essentially a potential criterion of truth.
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Perhaps at heart the problem is one of making clear the difference between consensus gentium (aka argumentum ad populum) and a scientific consensus.
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