Religious Language

Cognitive

• Statements about God that can be known to be true/false

• Statements about God that are not subject to being true/false

• Words being objective

• Words being subjective

Non cognitive

• Words having subjective meanings

• Words having objective meanings

• Statements about God which are not subject to being true/false

• Statements about God that can be known to be true/false

Univocal

• Words have the same meanings

• Words have different meanings

• Words used to describe God

• Use of religious language

Equivocal

• Words have the same meanings

• Words have different meanings

• Words used to describe God

• Use of religious language

Apophatic way

• Via negativa

• Via positiva

Cataphatic way

• Via negativa

• Via positiva

Anthropomorphism

• Describing something using an analogy

• Describing something using human terms

• Describing something in opposite terms

• Describing something from a human perspective

Analogy

• Use of perspective to explain something

• Comparison of something greater and smaller

• Comparing two things to gain understanding of the less familiar thing

• Gaining understanding through the use of human objects

Blik

• A belief that has no evidence

• A religious belief that has no basis

• A basic understanding of reality

• A basic unfalsifiable belief

Demarcation

• Determining the boundaries of something

• Understanding the division between boundaries

• Marking the differences between beliefs

• Determining the meaning of something