What did we discuss yesterday Is Peter Vardy making a category mistake The truth of an antirealist claim is based on coherence God exists is true not because God refers to an everlasting being or timeless substance but rather because the phrase God exists has a use and purp ID: 429788
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‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.’
What did we discuss yesterday?Slide2
Is Peter Vardy making a category mistake?
The truth of an anti-realist claim is based on coherence. ‘God exists’ is true not because ‘God’ refers to an everlasting being or timeless substance, but rather because the phrase ‘God exists’ has a use and purpose within the form of life of the believing community
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a statement of ontology?
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a religious statement of authority against another religion?Slide3
Is Peter Vardy making a category mistake
?
The truth of an
anti-realist claim is based on coherence
. ‘God exists’ is true not because ‘God’ refers to an everlasting being or timeless substance, but rather because the phrase ‘God exists’
has a use
and purpose within the
form of life
of the believing community
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a statement of ontology?
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a religious statement of authority against another religion?
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Is Peter Vardy making a category mistake?
The truth of an anti-realist claim is based on coherence. ‘God exists’ is true not because ‘God’ refers to an everlasting being or timeless substance, but rather because the phrase ‘God exists’ has a use and purpose within the form of life of the believing community
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a statement of ontology?
Is there a category mistake to assume that “God exists” is not a religious statement of authority against another religion?Slide5
What does this guy say about religious language? What is he most concerned with?
Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the use.Slide6
DZ Phillips and Wittgenstein. How are they linked according to this quote?
Some of the problems caused by religious language exist because we take the language literally. The concept of ‘soul’ for instance is problematic if we look for an actual non-physical thing at the core of our being that will survive death. Slide7
It highlights the non-cognitive nature of religious language. (Allegorical, metaphoric or simply talking of something outside of empirical understanding.)
It distinguishes it from other types of language. Accepts religious language as being distinct in its own game but with wider,
eschatalogical
, implications.
Language games provide boundaries for the correct use of language.
Believers can be initiated into the rules of language. The language is accessible and so can gain meaning.
Language games defend language against criticisms from other ‘forms of life’. Therefore truth is understood as relative and statements are to be judged against their context and not on whether they are inherently or objectively true or false.
Language games do not allow for believers’ claims to be empirically tested. it leaves statements unchallenged and unchallengeable opening the way for anything to be said and justified leading to meaningless statements.
Religious language alienates those outside the game. If you are not part of a particular form of life you are not privy to the language and its protocols leading to misunderstanding.
The rules of the game cannot be changed to allow outsiders in
meaning outsiders must adapt to the game and its rules not visa-versa.
Language GamesSlide8
What are your concluding thoughts on Witt?Slide9
How far do you agree with Vardy?
‘In finding the value of religious language, the individual finds God. Believers do not discover religious truths – they make them.’Slide10
What can we now say about religious language?
There is no single theory that satisfies everyone. Religious language is highly complex and, though it gives us no definitive truth, nevertheless it offers revealing insights into the nature of human existence and the quest to find, and understand, God
Ayer
Hick
Witt
Phillips
VardySlide11
What might an exam question look like on this?Slide12
What might an exam question look like on this?Slide13
Plan your essay!! LINE OF ARGUMENT
I’M NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP!!!