Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Phil HL - Religious Language - The
Theory of Meaning
- We make propositions
- Religious propositions are often contradictory
- God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
- God is beyond our experience
- We cannot measure his attributes
- Jeremy is trendy/God is transcendent
- We describe God in human terms
- The Lord spoke into Moses...
- What is a meaningful sentence?
- Have recognisable words
- These recognisable words must be put together to make gramatical sense
- It must communicate something
- must make sense without a context
- Mustn't contradict
- A. J. Ayer
- Influenced by
- The Vienna Circle (Logical Positivists)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- language is only meaningful if it is confined to discussing what falls within human experience
- Defended the Verification Principle