Religious Language

What does communication depend on?

• writing

• reading

• language

• speaking

What is our language based on?

• feelings

• thoughts

• perceptions

• experience

Which is these is not a metaphysical example?

• emotions

• religious language

• ideas

• science

The world on which our experiences are based

• empirical

• empiracle

• emparacle

• emparicle

Why do some philosophers say that religious language is inherently problematic

• No common experience

• our experience are time limited

• they are abstract terms

• it is specific to the individual or community

Which of these definitions describes cognitive language?

• Language that is not empirically verifiable or falsifiable but instead expresses an attitude towards something.

• Language that is empirically verifiable and makes assertions about objective reality.

When language in non-cognitive, what is it not?

• subjective

• opinions

• express empirically knowable facts

• attitudes

Critics of religious language claim that is is not

• non-cognitive

• cognitive

What did the Logical Positivists look to do with language?

• empirically falsify it

• empirically verify it

Who wrote Language, Truth and Logic?

• John Wisdom

• David Hume

• St Thomas Aquinas

• A J Ayer