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What does fideism mean?

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Noun
  1. the doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge
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In fact, the church's public argument is based on reason and science, not fideism.
Descartes used something like it in his Discourse on Method, but one senses that there was actually some faith left in Descartes' fideism.
Even if you reject Wittgensteinian fideism you might still take a lesson from it.
At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics.
A common feature of all revivalist movements is anti-intellectualism and a greater readiness to accept dogma and fideism.
In fact Heschel avoids both dangers, rationalism and fideism.

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