Opposition to fideism, the philosophical view that faith or belief is superior to reason or evidence in understanding truth.
From anti- + fideism (from Latin fidei, faith). Philosophical term developed to describe rationalist approaches opposing faith-based epistemology.
Antifideism is basically the philosophy behind science itself—the idea that you should test claims with evidence rather than just believing them because an authority says so.
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