[MD] Science and Scientism

[Ian Glendinning]

OK Mark (but the mail was addressed to me, take care)

You said
> Perhaps faith is not the right word, because
> I am not talking religious faith.

OK, maybe there is something to talk about. It's really the degree of
(or nature of) the blindness vs contingency in the faith (belief) we
are talking about. "Basis of belief" is the language I try to use.
Quite a few of those things you list you have first-person
experiential evidence as well as a lot of corroborating evidence. The
question is what counts as valuable evidence.

Ian