The Vagueness of Religious Beliefs

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.2937

Keywords:

Analytic Philosophy of Religion, Religious Belief, Epistemology of Religious Belief, Vagueness

Abstract

My paper characterizes religious beliefs in terms of vagueness. I introduce my topic by providing a general overview of my main claims. In the subsequent section, I develop basic distinctions and terminology for handling the notion of religious tradition and capturing (religious) vagueness. In the following sections, I make the case for my claim that religious beliefs are vague by developing a general argument from the interconnection between the referential opacity of religious belief content and the long-term communitarian history of the precisification of what such content means. I start from describing an empirical example in the third section, and then I move to settle the matter in a conceptually argumentative frame in the fourth one. My conclusions in the final section address a few of consequences relevant to debates about religious epistemology and religious diversity.

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Published

2020-06-30

How to Cite

Bertini, Daniele. 2020. “The Vagueness of Religious Beliefs”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2):181-210. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.2937.