2. Religious Language: Key Words and Intro
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- Created on: 16-06-17 13:40
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- 2. Religious Language: Key Words and Intro
- Cognitive language
- Coveys facts and language
- Non-cognitive language
- Things that are not factual
- E.g. feelings, metaphysical claims
- Univocal language
- Words that have same meaning in all contexts
- Equivocal language
- Words/language that has several different meanings, so unclear and ambiguous
- Religious language is:
- not univocal (so meaning of a statement is unclear)
- Arguments to religious language try to conclude either:
- Equivocal (as it concerns realm outside of existence, so there are different interpretations)
- If language has meaning
- If it is objectively useful despite being equivocal
- Arguments to religious language try to conclude either:
- Equivocal (as it concerns realm outside of existence, so there are different interpretations)
- not univocal (so meaning of a statement is unclear)
- Cognitive language
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