Religious language as non-cognitive and analogical - challenges

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  • Created by: gemshort
  • Created on: 10-06-18 22:16

An analogy is only as good as the point at which the two things being compared are similar - Hume

  • The issue for religious language was 'do we know what we mean when we use the word God?'
  • How do we 'know' what constitutes God - unless we are able, in some measure, to do this, then the point of comparison fails and so does the analogy

Both Aquinas and Ramsey assumes God's existence and, with this assumption, their assertions regarding analogy have some weight

  • Were we to dismiss the assumption that God exists then we run into a serious philosophical issues as far as analogous religious…

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