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A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious ExperienceThe Cognitivity of Religious Language

A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience: The Cognitivity of... [Religious language has been challenged by verificationists as not cognitive, and so religious claims have no meaning. This challenge fails, because even limited versions of verificationism are untenable. Some have granted that religious language has meaning, but does not make assertions, so is neither true nor false. Some have argued that religious language belongs to a different practice from ordinary language, and so should not be assessed according to ordinary understandings of rationality. Both of these charges have untenable consequences.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious ExperienceThe Cognitivity of Religious Language

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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2015
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978-3-319-09455-7
Pages
11 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-09456-4_2
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Abstract

[Religious language has been challenged by verificationists as not cognitive, and so religious claims have no meaning. This challenge fails, because even limited versions of verificationism are untenable. Some have granted that religious language has meaning, but does not make assertions, so is neither true nor false. Some have argued that religious language belongs to a different practice from ordinary language, and so should not be assessed according to ordinary understandings of rationality. Both of these charges have untenable consequences.]

Published: Aug 19, 2014

Keywords: Verificationism; Logical positivism; A.J. Ayer; Rudolf Carnap; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Language game; Expressivism

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