ill formed we don't really know but for beliefs that really matter to us we assume that there is a reality that corresponds to the belief but that belief in that reality is not just another belief it's a presupposition of making sense of the first belief some people say that when they believe in God that that is the most sure thing that they know yet many people know I think a lot of people for them the belief in God is the kind of background presupposition they make sense of their lives only on the presupposition that there is a