A person who believes that faith and belief are more important than reason, logic, or scientific evidence.
From Latin 'fides' (faith) plus '-ist' (a person who practices or believes in something). The term emerged in 19th-century philosophy to describe certain religious and philosophical positions.
Fideism as a movement exploded in the 1800s when philosophers realized that pure reason can't prove everything—so even scientists and skeptics admitted they had to take some things 'on faith' (like the reliability of their senses).
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