For Masham, "Faith being here understood as that faculty in us which discovers, by the intervention of intermediate ideas, what connection those in the proposition have one with another whether certain, probable, or none at all, according to which we ought to regulate our assent."

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Masham did not define faith in this manner; this definition more closely aligns with John Locke's understanding of reason and its role in discerning the relationships between ideas and the degrees of assent we should give to propositions based on evidence and logical connection, not faith.

For Masham, "Faith Being Here Understood as That Faculty in Us