Religious Lang Flashcards
(17 cards)
What’s a lexicon
Group of words to a particular subject
Why’s language used
To communicate concepts and make ourselves understood
What can language be seen as
Picture game
Can we experience gods nature with language
No
We are finite limited beings discussing infinity and unlimited beings
We haven’t experienced it
First problem
Accuracy of statements when applied to god
Univocal
Literal meaning when we make statements
Can’t be used when talkin ab god
Equivocal
Different meaning
What sallie Mcfsgue say
Religious language no longer a common shared base and experience
We don’t actually talk ab god no more
What religious language often seen as
Cognitive
But meaningless at the same time
What the Vienna circle say
Statements can only be meaningful if they able to be verified by actual experience
Tautology
Statement true by definition
Known as verification principle
What logical positivists say
Even talkin ab god is pointless as it’s not empirically verifieable
What aj Ayer say
People make non verifieable statements that are imoortant to them
But they don’t have factual significance
What Ayer say
We only know truth of a statement if it verified
But truth can be individually under stood an still have meaning
Practical verifiability
Verify using senses
What should u do with ur language game
Keep it in ur religion
What eschatological verification mean
To verify in the end/future
