Any belief that purports to be cognitive must be assessable and knowable by anyone capable of cognition, regardless of prior commitment.

Given his explanation of what religion is, Bosanquet holds that religion is entirely consistent with reason. He insists that religious belief as a whole is not superstition, and that it is true so far as it is an expression of a “nisus towards the whole” (Principle of Individuality and Value, p. 98). Again, since particular religious beliefs purport to be cognitive, they must, at least in principle, be able to be known by believers and non-believers alike. (He is, however, sceptical about the re