Hinging on abstraction/analogy alone = delusional.
Hinging on rationality/reason alone = faithlessness.

Things *happen* effectively when both come together.

Intellectual honesty just means transcending one's thought-based beliefs/biases, the blinding lens so to speak.

The right view presents itself when one favors no views/lens, has no views.
why? — because there's no "you" you-ing, meaning no grasping/clinging/resisting etc.

Reactive rejections/dismissiveness and approvals are not two things. 
They are but dormant beliefs in essence, whereas Truth...

"Neti Neti — not this. not this.

Truth = End of Mind, which is to say end of perceiver-perceiving-perception. end of experiencer-experiencing-experience. end of thinker-thinking-thought."