Religious language
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- Religious language
- Analogy
- Aquinas
- Bulls urine analogy
- Attributes
- Used to explain analogies
- Bulls urine analogy
- Type of religious language
- Aquinas
- Verification
- Criticism of religious language
- A.J Ayer
- logical positivist
- Unless it can be proven empirically it is meaningless
- Can be verified
- Analytic truth
- Mathematic truth
- R.B Braithwaite
- Falsification
- Verification
- Criticism of religious language
- A.J Ayer
- logical positivist
- Unless it can be proven empirically it is meaningless
- Can be verified
- Analytic truth
- Mathematic truth
- R.B Braithwaite
- Falsification
- Criticism of religious language
- R.M Hare
- Bliks
- A blik is a non-rational belief which could never be falsified
- Bliks
- Anthony Flew
- "Religious language dies the death of a thousand qualifications"
- "If there is nothing that a putative assertion denies then there is nothing which it asserts either"
- Has to be either true or false to have meaning
- John Hick
- "In order to say something which may possibly be true we must say something that may possibly be false
- Basil Mitchell
- Provisional hypotheses
- Discarded if experience proves them wrong
- Vacuous formulae
- Has no effect on them or life
- Significant articles of faith
- "Face the full force of conflict"
- Has an effect on them or life
- Provisional hypotheses
- Argued that religious language is about the way in which people behave towards each other, and that religious claims are meaningful as they express an intention to follow a certain code of behaviour
- Falsification
- Criticism of religious language
- R.M Hare
- Bliks
- A blik is a non-rational belief which could never be falsified
- Bliks
- Anthony Flew
- "Religious language dies the death of a thousand qualifications"
- "If there is nothing that a putative assertion denies then there is nothing which it asserts either"
- Has to be either true or false to have meaning
- John Hick
- "In order to say something which may possibly be true we must say something that may possibly be false
- Basil Mitchell
- Provisional hypotheses
- Discarded if experience proves them wrong
- Vacuous formulae
- Has no effect on them or life
- Significant articles of faith
- "Face the full force of conflict"
- Has an effect on them or life
- Provisional hypotheses
- Verification
- Argued that religious language is about the way in which people behave towards each other, and that religious claims are meaningful as they express an intention to follow a certain code of behaviour
- Falsification
- Myth
- Type of religious language
- Joseph Campbell
- Monomyth
- "A mirror for the soul"
- Metaphor
- Not lies
- Not meant to be taken literally
- Non-cognitive
- Symbol
- Can show meaning
- Type of religious language
- Paul Tillich
- Sign and symbol
- All language is symbolic
- language games
- Wittgenstein
- "Don't ask for the meaning ask for the function"
- Each 'game' is different depending on the 'players'
- Form of life
- Wittgenstein
- Analogy
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