Abstract

The issue of this study continues the analysis of persuasive truth, a problem debated by us in several articles already published, especially in two of them: Doxastic Dialectics and The Probable and the Problem. In this new “chapter,” our intention is to develop more details from the perspective of subjectivity, which has a grounding role in doxastic dialectics. Doxa’s axiomatic mechanism tries to temper the subjective dimension of persuasive truth, by submitting the doxastic proofs to the control of the oppositional principle. Doxastic thinking discovers dialectically its own ratio, progressively increasing the relevance of the listening capacity. In the text that follows, the concept of listening is used in a larger than sensitive sense, being equivalent to condition of receptivity.