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The same sentence, two hearers
Change what each person believes, means, assumes and feels. Watch the words stay exactly the same while the conversation becomes a different one.
“I don't think faith is rational.”
“If a belief lacks adequate justification, it should not be counted as rational.”
Faith = believing something without sufficient evidence.
01Rational beliefs require justification
02Faith is belief held without evidence
03Empirical evidence carries the highest authority
Unknown assumption detected
Knowledge is grounded primarily in empirical observation.
“If a belief lacks adequate justification, it should not be counted as rational.”
“Marcus is asking whether religious belief has enough justification to count as rational.”
“Maybe the disagreement begins with what he means by faith.”
“When you say faith, do you mean believing something without evidence?”
The conversation is waiting on you
Play a move below to continue it — or open the statement above and investigate what is holding it up.
Findings0/6
Somewhere in this exchange a single word is doing two jobs.
Something neither of them has said is holding the argument up.
One of them is answering something the other did not say.
They agree for longer than either of them realises.
There is a floor under this disagreement. Neither has named it.
Under the argument they are having is the one they are not.
This is one of the tools.
Atlas Apologia teaches the whole path — explore what people actually believe, test the reasoning, then defend a position you understand.