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Episode 2 – Is Faith Irrational: Aquinas on the Rationality of Belief | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 1: Why Aquinas?

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Do You Believe That Elvis Is Alive?

Natural believing involves your mind really coming into contact with te truth. If i were a kind of literal minded philosopher, there are several different answers i could give. I could say, well, i don't know whether it's true, but it seems to me that it probably isn't. The second thing i might say is, well, you know, actually, i i bet that that report is accurate - although the opposite is not entirely out of the question. Or i might say, a, no, i don’t believe it. Now here actually saying no might have several meanings. So we can give someex ples of natural believing,. Just to illuminate this kind of basic

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