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The history of science is replete^[각주:1] with instances of faith in reason and vision of truth. 

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton were all imbued^[각주:2] with unshakable faith in reason.

For this, Bruno was burned at the stake and Spinoza suffered excommunication.

At every step from the conception of a rational vision to the formulation of a theory, faith is necessary: faith in the vision as a rationally valid aim to pursue, faith in the hypothesis as a likely and plausible proposition, and faith in the final theory, at least until a general consensus about its validity has been reached. 

This faith is rooted in one's own experience, in the confidence in one's power of thought, observation, and judgment. 

While irrational faith is the acceptance of something as true only because an authority or the majority say so, rational faith is rooted in an independent conviction based upon one's own productive observing and thinking, in spite of the majority's opinion.

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