Religious language

The problem of religious language

• How meaningful is religious language?
• Can we ever talk about God in a meaningful way?
• Some philosophers argue that religious language is used in a different way to normal language despite the same vocabulary being used.
• Some assert that it is cognitive and therefore something about God must be known.
• Some see that we anthropomorphize God in a way to allow our human brains to comprehend something about God and his nature.

The logical positives

• They were a group of philosophers in the 1920's
• They did NOT seek to understand how we gain knowledge of the external world, rather how we use knowledge as a means to convey this knowledge.
• ONLY THOES THINGS THAT CAN BE EMPIRICALLY VERIFIED CAN HAVE MEANINGFULLNESS.