I MAKE A few brief comments in response to what Harriet Harris says so helpfully. Taking belief in God as basic is more like taking belief in other minds as basic than doing so with beliefs in everyday objects such as trees. A belief may be held as basic and, at the same time, open to criticism. Foundations may be discovered retrospectively as we walk on them rather than established first as something from which we start to build.
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