Thursday, October 5, 2017

Religious Language

Sometimes an expression has to be taken out of language and sent to the cleaners; then re-introduced into service
~ Wittgenstein

"Wittgenstein, the famous philosophic proponent of language-game theory, argued that varying types and forms of language have different rules, which in turn determine what is meaningful. Outside of a language game a proposition or word meaning is meaningless. Wittgenstein proposed that the meaning of a word depends on its content and the rules of that context. Thus, for Wittgenstein, religious language is confessional, something that someone believes or feels, rather than consisting of claims to truth."

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