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From: walker@oberon.UUCP (Mike Walker)
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> It is intellectually myopic to assert that a rationalist philosphy does
> not have faith (i.e., a belief system) at its base.
> 
> As the 19th-century Presbyterian theologian R. L. Dabney so succinctly put it:
> 
> "The pretended warfare between reason and faith is waged by all those who
> wish to make a pretext for believing unreasonably and wickedly."
> 
> Let all philosophers own up to their beliefs or else admit that knowledge
> (and philosophy) is impossible.

Pardon a late follow up:

Faith/belief can be based on reason and fact.  I beleive (have faith)  that if
I pick something up and let go of it, it will fall.  Whether religions have
any basis in fact and reason is another question.  A philsophical system can
be based on many things but if it is to be rational shouldn't it have a basis
in observable fact?
-- 
Michael D. Walker (Mike)
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