Petitio Principii. With Reference to Doxastic/Belief Dialectics

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. The demonstration – displayed in hermeneutical terms – will try to explain: (a)To what extent the cognitive power of subjectivity (the belief) represents an ‘original source’, and(b)To what extent the hermeneutical circle is a ‘circle’, or rather ‘a way to language’.