Question

Maimonides writes in The Guide for the Perplexed: “Alexander already explained that regarding anything for which there is no proof, one should lay down the two extremes of the contradiction in that matter, and examine what doubts follow from each of the two opposites, and accept the one with fewer doubts.” It seems from his words that faith—or more precisely, conviction—is something that comes after one has already reached a conclusion about how many doubts attach to each side (that is, which side is more plausible), and now one must decide which side is correct. I have also seen people distinguish between “belief” and “acceptance.” Perhaps the commandment to believe in God, according to Maimonides, is in the sense of “acceptance.”