The ‘Local’ Nature of Religious Hinges and the Problem of ‘Honest Doubt’

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock; Sebastian Sunday Grève

doi:10.3390/rel16091185

The ‘Local’ Nature of Religious Hinges and the Problem of ‘Honest Doubt’

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Sebastian Sunday Grève (Editor)

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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.

Original language	English
Number of pages	9
Journal	Religions
Volume	16
Issue number	9
Early online date	15 Sept 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16091185
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 15 Sept 2025

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epistemic vertigo
relativism
hinge epistemology
On Certainty
religion

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