Faith & Philosophy Mutually exclusive to Science & Math? - INTP ...

I don't have the exact quote on hand but Arthur Schopenhauer once made the point that a true philosopher does not deal in comforts, more-or-less "if one wishes to hear comforting things they should go to a priest and leave philosophers in peace". This is the distinction I'm making between philosophy and faith, one is a matter of comforts (people believe what they wish to) and the other is a matter of truth no matter how lacking in comfort it may be.

If the beliefs of the faithful happen to contain a grain of truth then it is by coincidence, nothing more, because the moment this truth is used to discredit the belief it will be abandoned and/or the belief adjusted in some way so as to retain it's comforting value.

Likewise if a philosopher happens to believe something then it is a hypothesis to be tested and abandoned if deemed incongruent with known truths, regardless of how comforting it may or may not have been.

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