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Today, religious and secular belief are commonly set apart, but it was not so when modern epistemology was taking shape in Europe; by offering new, life-threatening religious choices, the Reformation gave anew sort of practical importance to “Credo”, and, with it, to meaning and truth (a propos of “Hoc est corpus meum ”. Here is a famous 16th century statement of the problem and its skeptical solution.
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Jeffrey, R. (2000). Transformations of Belief. In: Engel, P. (eds) Believing and Accepting. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4042-3_8
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