I think “open mindedness” is a decent way to talk about what I’m calling trust or faith here, although I think there’s a bit of difference simply because of different things people mean by open mindedness, trust, and faith. For example, all these words sometimes point to a kind of anti-rational stance, other times they are used to give up on doing epistemological work, and then there’s the way we’re using them here. This is unfortunately one of the things that makes it so hard to talk about trust-faith: the concept is adjacent to others and can easily be misunderstood when “flattened” down to fit within a person’s existing understanding of the world, and that’s where the trouble begins.
I think “open mindedness” is a decent way to talk about what I’m calling trust or faith here, although I think there’s a bit of difference simply because of different things people mean by open mindedness, trust, and faith. For example, all these words sometimes point to a kind of anti-rational stance, other times they are used to give up on doing epistemological work, and then there’s the way we’re using them here. This is unfortunately one of the things that makes it so hard to talk about trust-faith: the concept is adjacent to others and can easily be misunderstood when “flattened” down to fit within a person’s existing understanding of the world, and that’s where the trouble begins.