ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, I argued for a view of the balance between trust and toleration that was tuned closely-but not too closely-to particular contexts. To determine what the implications of such a view are for us, however, we need to apply a similar kind of analysis to a contemporary controversy. When we do so, we will not be allowed to use one of the tools that was available in examining the historical cases: we can no longer separate what we take to be true from what people at the time thought and what they had reason to believe to be true. For us, the best reason to which we have access will be the same as the best reason that can be accepted at the time. So we will be forced to consider more concretely what the effects of our views about trust and toleration will be.
