Religious language: Key terms 0.0 / 5 ? PhilosophyReligious language introductionA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Emily UffindellCreated on: 31-12-14 14:58 Via Negitiva The way of talking about God by saying what he is not. 1 of 14 Via positiva The way of talking about God by saying what he is. 2 of 14 Equivocal When the same word is used in 2 different and unrelated ways. 3 of 14 Univocal When the same word is used in 2 different contexts but means the same thing. 4 of 14 Analogy When 2 things are compared as similar because they share the same features. 5 of 14 Myth A story which conveys a religious belief or truth. 6 of 14 Cognitive Language that carries meaning and puts forward a proposition that is provable true and false) 7 of 14 Non-cognitive Does not carry meaning in a factual manner, and is not putting forward a proposition provable true or false. 8 of 14 Analytic statement A statement true by definition 9 of 14 Strong verification principle A statement only carries meaning only if it is either analytic or empirically verifiable. 10 of 14 Weak verification principle A statement carries meaning only if it verifiable in principle/synthetically/can be shown to be probably true. 11 of 14 Blik A way of looking at the world (Hare). 12 of 14 Realist Claims that refer to something that objectively exists and not just within a community of believers. 13 of 14 Language game Individual terms have meaning because of the way they are used within a group (Wittgenstein). 14 of 14
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