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If “in the mind”, “faith”, and “belief” all meant the same thing, then we wouldn’t need the different words. I don’t think anyone here has expressed the thought that they believe there is no real mind-body problem. If they did, I’d probably refer to neuroscience, that has some real information on that, but has not solved the problem. I don’t think looking up all of these definitions and discussing them would yield much at this point, so I’ll say what usually do about science; if you believe in empiricism, you’re doing it wrong.

Empiricism is a theory, so it’s not dogma. I know many people make the mistake of thinking it’s some sort of truth in itself, but they are wrong, or they just haven’t thought about it that much because they are too busy discovering the different varieties of Cuervo. More power to ‘em. But if you do think about such things, the starting point should be that you are theorizing.  All methods of scientific inquiry include the premise that they themselves (the methods, the assumptions) can be shown to be wrong. Without that, you aren’t doing science.