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Faith
a rational attitude towards a potential object of knowledge which arises when we are subjectively certain it is true even though we are unable to gain theoretical or objective certainty. By contrast, knowledge implies objective and subjective certainty, while opinion is the state of having neither objective nor subjective certainty. Kant encouraged a more humble approach to philosophy by claiming to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith--i.e., by distinguishing between what we can know empirically and what is transcendent, which we can approach only by means of faith.
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| A posteriori know... | A priori knowledge
| A priori, analyti... | | A priori, theory ... | A priori,presuppo... | ABSOLUTE
| ABSTRACTION
| ABSURDITY
| AFFINITY
| ALTERATION (CHANGE)
| AMPHIBOLY
| ANALOGY OF EXPERI... | ANALYTIC
| ANALYTIC METHOD
| ANALYTIC UNITY OF... | | ANTECEDENT PROPOS... | ANTHROPOLOGY
| ANTICIPATION OF P... | ANTINOMY
| APOAGOGIC
| APPEARANCE
| APPREHENSION
| APRIORI
| ARCHETYPE
| ARCHITECTONIC
| ATTENTION
| ATTRIBUTE
| AUTHENTICITY
| AXIOMS OF INTUITION
| Abbott, Lyman
| Abdera
| Abelard, Peter
| Abelson, Robert
| Abernathy, John
| Absolute
| Absolute idealism
| Absolute theism
| Absolutes
| Absolutism
| Abstract ideas
| Acquaintance
| Act agapism
| Act deontology
| Act teleology
| Act utilitarianism
| Action
| Action theory
| Adams
| Adams, Jay E
| Adams, Thomas
| Aenesidemus
| Aesthetic hedonism
| Aesthetic humanism
| Aesthetic stage
| Aesthetics
| Aeterni Patris
| Agapism
| Agapistic ethics
| Agnostic
| Agnosticism
| Albertus Magnus
| Albigensians
| Albright, Jacob
| Alesius, Alexander
| Alexander, Archib... | Alexander, James W.
| Alexander, Samuel
| Alleine, Joseph
| Allon, Henry
| | Altizer, Thomas J... | Altruism
| Altruistic
| Altruistic hedonism
| Ambrose
| Ambrose, Isaac
| Amish
| Ammann, Jacob
| Anabaptist
| | Analogical predic... | Analysis
| Analytic philosophy
| Analytical
| Analytical philos... | Analytical statem... | Anamnesis
| Anarchism
| Anaxagoras
| Anaximander
| Anaximenes
| Anderson, James
| Anderson, John R.
| Andrewes, Lancelot
| Angier, John
| Animal faith
| Anselm
| Anthony of Padua
| Anthropology
| Anthropomorphism
| Antifallibilism |
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