No.45 Referenced from ~ Part2 - Chapter 2 - Section 1

Faith and reason as a many-to-many relationship

In the conventional view, faith and reason have always been placed in a one-to-one relationship, whether they are conjunctive or antagonistic or both. However, it is necessary to set them in a many-to-many relationship.

When we see the relationship between faith and reason as one-to-one, even if we see it as a relationship of opposition and separation, we will not be able to draw a meaningful boundary between the two, because a straight line drawn between faith and reason in this case would teach us nothing.

However, if we see the relationship between faith and reason as two-dimensional, many-to-many, then the boundary between faith and reason can be drawn in various ways, and this can potentially express the state of reason and faith between believers and non-believers, or the state of people who are in between, albeit only diagrammatically.