Petitio principii

with reference to doxastic/belief dialectics

Rodica Amel

pp. 207-218

in: Giovanni Scarafile, Leah Gruenpeter Gold (eds), Paradoxes of conflicts, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

The present contribution reexamines the thesis regarding the rationality of doxastic dialectics, an issue developed by us in several of our previous studies. This time our intention is to emphasize the paradoxical nature of the subjectivity (a premise grounding the belief), and to demonstrate that, in spite of this aspect, the above-mentioned thesis gets more subtle support, instead of being devaluated.