Religious language

Question 1

Is there a particular issue about religious language?

Answer 1

Using human language to talk about God

Question 2

Equivocal

Answer 2

Same word, 2 meaning

Question 3

Univocal

Answer 3

1 Word, 1 meaning

Question 4

Who says that when talking to God we shouldn’t use equivoval nor univocal and why?

Answer 4

Aquinas, we should use analogical because we are not talking about something different from his essence.

Question 5

What do Flew and Mitchel have to say on the subject?

Answer 5

• Flew: Claims about God are meaningless

- Mitchel: Claims about God can’t be the object of an empirical formula, they go beyond the evidence.

Question 6

What is falsifiability?

Answer 6

Capacity for a claim to be proven wrong

Question 7

What is positivism?

Answer 7

A philosophical system that holds that to be meaningful, every assertion must be scientifically verified or susceptible to logical falsification.

Question 8

What does “‘apophatic” means?

Answer 8

Knowledge of God is obtained through negation