Religious Language

There are two categories that religious language can be put into: (select multiple options then press 'submit')

• Cognitive

• Non-cognitive

• Analytic

• Synthetic

Cognitive language...

• Makes factual assertions, or claims that can be proved true or false

• Is any language that requires a person to cognitively think about it

• Presents symbols, metaphors, ethical statements, emotion etc.

• Can only be verified in practice

Non-cognitive language

• Makes factual assertions, or claims that can be proved true or false

• Is any language that requires a person to cognitively think about it

• Presents symbols, metaphors, ethical statements, emotion etc.

• Is any language that is unverifiable and meaningless

Ayer argued...

• Religious language was meaningless in every way

• Religious language is untrue because it cannot be verified

• Religious language is untrue because God is physical

• Religious language is meaningless unless you're talking from an atheist perspective

Eschatological Verification was presented by...

• Hick

• Hume

• Wittgenstein

• Hare

Eschatological means...

• Life after death/end of the world

• In the future

• In heaven

• Religious language

Hick's Eschatological Language shows that religious language can still be...

• Cognitive

• Non-cognitive

For Hick, eschatological verification was an extension of...

• verification in practice

• verification in principle

• falsification in practice

• falsification in principle

For Hick, all religious language is meaningful because...

• Everything is personal interpretation, so there is no absolute 'truth'

• We will verify it after we have died

• We make meaning for ourselves

• God is physical and therefore verifiable

D. Z. Phillips presented a..

• Theory that supports Wittgenstein

• Cognitive analysis of Wittgenstein

• Non-cognitive analysis of Wittgenstein

• Criticism of Wittgenstein