Religious Language
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- Religious Language
- Key terms
- anti-realist: belief in the idea of God
- non-cognitive: statements are not meant to be taken factually. they can be true for me and false for you
- Coherence theory of truth: truth claims can be made regardless - they are believed to be a true to a particular family
- Non Verifiable: a claim that is not capable of being proved true
- Coherence theory of truth: truth claims can be made regardless - they are believed to be a true to a particular family
- non-cognitive: statements are not meant to be taken factually. they can be true for me and false for you
- realist: belief in the being of God
- cognitive: factual statements can be proved true or false. can only be true OR false
- Correspondence theory of truth: truth claims correspond to how thing really are, d can be proved to be so
- Verifiable: a claim/ statement can be proved to be true/ state the conditions in which it could be proved to be true
- Correspondence theory of truth: truth claims correspond to how thing really are, d can be proved to be so
- cognitive: factual statements can be proved true or false. can only be true OR false
- anti-realist: belief in the idea of God
- Verification Principle - AJ Ayer
- 3 types of statements that are meaningful
- Analytic Statements
- true by definition
- Mathematical Statements
- Synthetic Statments
- subjected to empirical testing
- Analytic Statements
- Logical Positivists (Vienna Circle)
- For a statement to be considered meaningful, it as to be verified by our sense experieces
- 3 types of statements that are meaningful
- Falsification Principle - Anthony Flew
- religious statements can neither be proved true (verified) nor false
- religious believers do not accept the evidene that counts against (falsifies) their belief
- concerned with what, in principle, would make something false
- 'in order to say something which may possibly be true we must saysomething which may possibly be false' - John Hick
- religious statements can neither be proved true (verified) nor false
- Solutions - ways to say it is possible to talk about God
- Analogy
- univocal language - words have the same meaning
- Analogy of Attribution
- based on causation
- Analogy of Proportion
- when a word us employed to refer to a quality that a thing possesses in proportion to the kind of reality it possesses
- Metaphor & Symbol
- Symbolic Language
- goes beyond that to what the believer feels about what the symbol conveys
- they go beyond factual and objective understanding
- they are supposed to convey religious facts but cannot be verified
- anti realist
- Paul Tillich
- believes that religious language is more symbolic than literal
- symbols help describe something that can words
- J Randall agreed with Tillich
- non-cognitive (cannot be proven)
- religious language does four things
- arouse emotion which makes people act
- inspire community action
- allows someone to express their experience in a non-literal sense
- clarifies our experience of God
- allows someone to express their experience in a non-literal sense
- inspire community action
- arouse emotion which makes people act
- religious language does four things
- non-cognitive (cannot be proven)
- symbols do four thing:
- they point to something beyond themselves
- they participate in what they point to
- they open up level of reality that are closed
- they open up dimensions of the soul
- they open up level of reality that are closed
- they participate in what they point to
- they point to something beyond themselves
- believes that religious language is more symbolic than literal
- Symbolic Language
- Myth
- Emile Durkheim - myths are a construct of society and they change as society changes since they reflect the values of society at that time
- Karl Jasper - myths are stories about God that express intuitive insights and carry meaning
- John Macquarrie - myths are a fictional story conveying objective truth
- Rudolf Bultmann - Bible is not literal and that the biblical are myths
- need to demythologise the Bible to find out what it is trying to tell you
- Via Negativa & Moral Claims
- The Initial Problem
- statements about God use language that are not empirically verifiable
- reject statements like "God is love"
- statements about God use language that are not empirically verifiable
- to find out what God is like, you need to know what he is not like
- The Initial Problem
- Analogy
- Language Games - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein rejects the VP
- What does language mean in our community?
- Language cannot be meaningless nonsense if you do not understand what it means
- non-cognitive & coherence theory of truth
- Kantian Gulf
- Made by Kant
- God = noumenal realm
- not verifiable
- metaphysical
- "the truth in itself"
- humans = phenomenal realm
- our experiences and perceptions of things
- verifiable
- physical
- Key terms
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