Quasi-fideist Presuppositionalism: Cornelius Van Til, Wittgenstein, and Hinge Epistemology

I argue that the epistemology underlying Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetic methodology is quasi-fideist. According to this view, the rationality of religious belief is dependent on absolutely certain ungrounded grounds, called hinges. I further argue that the quasi-fideist epistemology...

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Main Author: Smith, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Philosophia reformata
Year: 2023, Volume: 88, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-48
Further subjects:B Cornelius Van Til
B hinge epistemology
B presuppositional apologetics
B Ludwig Wittgenstein
B quasi-fideism
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