Religious Language Definitons

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  • Defintions
    • Cognitive Language
      • Factual assertions that can be proved true or false
      • 'Realist', objective meaning
    • Non-Cognitive Language
      • Claims that are to be interpreted in other ways
      • 'Anti-Realist', subjective meaning
    • Univocal Language
      • Means the same regardless of its application
      • Predicate of man and God that we are good. Anthropomor-phism
    • Equivocal Language
      • The meaning is equal but not the same
      • No objective meanings, meaningless?
    • Aquinas' Analogy
      • Analogy of Attribution- Goodness comes from God directly
        • The Baker and the Bread
      • Analogy of Proportion- proportionate relationship between all things
        • God's life is proportionally greater than ours

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