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Could faith be a reliable source of knowledge? There are two ways in which believers argue that it is. The first is to supply arguments in favour of the authority of their chosen prophet or set of Scriptures. A second, more common strategy is to try to ‘bootstrap’ the act of faith, making it the source of its own reliability. Neither strategy seems likely to be successful.
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Dawes, G.W. (2016). Self-Authentication, Again. In: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43500-8_20
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