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fideism
  1. the doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge
  2. Examples:
    1. “In fact, the church's public argument is based on reason and science, not fideism.”
      “At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics.”
      “Descartes used something like it in his Discourse on Method, but one senses that there was actually some faith left in Descartes' fideism.”
fideist
  1. A subscriber to fideism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This omission is, I suspect, tied to Naugle's less than satisfactory presentation of Wittgenstein, whom he dismisses as a relativist and fideist.”
      “The recent struggle against Kantian and fideist Modernism is a struggle for life.”
      “The former is called a fideist, one who believes in God purely on faith.”
fideists
  1. plural of fideist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Through analyses of William James, Alvin Plantinga, Aquinas, Kant and Kierkegaard, Evans argues that responsible fideists employ reason to conclude that reason is limited.”
      “But this tendency, which the 19th century dubbed fideism, took various forms, and to understand Hobbes's theology we need to see the difference between him and the fideists.”
fideisms
  1. plural of fideism
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