The ‘Local’ Nature of Religious Hinges and the Problem of ‘Honest Doubt’
Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele
(2025)
The ‘Local’ Nature of Religious Hinges and the Problem of ‘Honest Doubt’.
Religions, 16 (9).
ISSN 2077-1444
I briefly address Duncan Pritchard’s ‘parity argument’ and argue that it should be pared down to parity between religious hinges and local hinges. I then object to Pritchard’s notion of ‘honest doubt’ as ‘religious epistemic vertigo’ to account—in the context of a Wittgensteinian epistemology—for the doubt that is often at the heart of religious belief. I argue that the ‘local’ nature of religious hinges offers a more plausible account.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Identification Number | 10.3390/rel16091185 |
| Additional information | ©2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, to view a copy of the license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords | epistemic vertigo, relativism, hinge epistemology, on certainty, religion |
| Date Deposited | 28 Oct 2025 12:41 |
| Last Modified | 21 Nov 2025 00:03 |
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