Languages Games
Religious Language
- Created by: Liv_Houston
- Created on: 18-01-18 21:53
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- Language Games
- Advantages
- Highlights 'non-cognitive nature'.
- You can be initiated into new games.
- Provide boundaries for correct usage of language.
- Truth is relative, dependent on context.
- Weaknesses
- The Rules of the Game can't be changed to let outsiders in
- Doesn't allow claims to be Empirically Tested
- Religion Alienates those outside the Game
- Language
- Not Universal
- Non-Cognitive
- All Forms of Life have their own rules.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Anti-Realist, 'God' doesn't Exist
- Postmodern Era
- Language is only true for those in this Form of Life
- Players
- Language can be used correctly/ incorrectly, not true or false.
- Each Game has it's own 'Criteria of Coherence'
- Advantages
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