MoL-2025-19: du Toit, Simeon (2025) Cornelius Van Til’s Presuppositional Epistemology as a New Model for Deep Disagreement: Relations to and Improvements on Quasi-Fideism. [Report]
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Abstract
A new model for deep disagreement is derived from Presuppositional Epistemology. This is done by a critical appraisal of an attempt to unify Duncan Pritchard’s Quasi-Fideism with the Presuppositional Apologetic by Nicholas Smith. Quasi-Fideism is a version of Wittgenstein’s Hinge Epistemology. The result is a novel model for deep disagreement that satisfies all the criteria identified by an influential account of deep disagreement by Chris Ranalli. The resulting theory of deep disagreement includes a model for rational reasoning that distinguishes between world-view internal and world-view external reasoning, solving multiple puzzles surrounding how beliefs are rationally justified.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Report Nr: | MoL-2025-19 |
| Series Name: | Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Subjects: | Cognition Logic Philosophy |
| Depositing User: | Dr Marco Vervoort |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2025 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2025 15:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/2390 |
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