Essay Three: What Does it Mean to Believe?
Introduction
A mode of natural 'faith' is indispensable in our daily life. So when answering the questions of faith's necessity or whether or not it is merely a juvenile transitory fancy. We must look to what is first. In our daily life we make use of technologies, which for the most part, we do not have the expertise to say how or why the thing works. While our experiences verify that such technologies do exist and do work based on basic principals. We are relying on those credible knowledgeable persons who do have the knowledge to say how a thing works. We are filled with knowledge of common experiences (a-priori) and rely by a natural faith on the wisdom of others.
Nevertheless it is not a pure faith bereft of any confirmation, hence it is a lesser faith, yet it is the basis which all men might understand. (p82)
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