to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the sid…

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to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.116, Penguin
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