{"id":13786,"date":"2025-12-02T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:10:09","slug":"the-infirmity-of-reason-versus-the-certitude-of-faith-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/the-infirmity-of-reason-versus-the-certitude-of-faith-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infirmity of Reason versus the Certitude of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/the-infirmity-of-reason-versus-the?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>. Some thoughts on Pierre Bayle.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Reason is infirm in that it cannot establish anything definitively as regards the ultimate questions that most concern us. It cannot even prove that doubting is the way to truth, \u201cthat it is certain that we ought to be in doubt.\u201d (Pyrrho entry,\u00a0Bayle\u2019s Dictionary, tr. Popkin, p. 205) But,\u00a0pace\u00a0Pierre Bayle, the merely subjective certitude of faith is no solution either! Recoiling from the labyrinth into which unaided human reason loses itself, Bayle writes:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. Some thoughts on Pierre Bayle. Reason is infirm in that it cannot establish anything definitively as regards the ultimate questions that most concern us. It cannot even prove that doubting is the way to truth, \u201cthat it is certain that we ought to be in doubt.\u201d (Pyrrho entry,\u00a0Bayle\u2019s Dictionary, tr. Popkin, p. 205) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/the-infirmity-of-reason-versus-the-certitude-of-faith-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Infirmity of Reason versus the Certitude of Faith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,66,502,128,139,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bayle","category-faith-and-reason","category-infirmity-of-reason","category-reason-and-rationality","category-religion","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13787,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}