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    [fullTitle] => How To Hang A Door: Picking Hinges for Quasi-Fideism
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Abstract: In the epistemology of the late Wittgenstein, a central place is given to the notion of the hinge: an arational commitment that provides a foundation of some sort for the rest of our beliefs. Quasi-fideism is an approach to the epistemology of religion that argues that religious belief is on an epistemic par with other sorts of belief inasmuch as religious and non-religious beliefs all rely on hinges. I consider in this paper what it takes to find the appropriate hinge for a quasi-fideist approach to the epistemology of religion.


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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3059
    [datePublished] => 2021-03-31
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How To Hang A Door: Picking Hinges for Quasi-Fideism

Nicholas
University of California, Irvine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3059

Abstract

Abstract: In the epistemology of the late Wittgenstein, a central place is given to the notion of the hinge: an arational commitment that provides a foundation of some sort for the rest of our beliefs. Quasi-fideism is an approach to the epistemology of religion that argues that religious belief is on an epistemic par with other sorts of belief inasmuch as religious and non-religious beliefs all rely on hinges. I consider in this paper what it takes to find the appropriate hinge for a quasi-fideist approach to the epistemology of religion.


Keywords: quasi-fideism

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