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Discuss the claim that religious language is meaningless
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Discuss the claim that religious language is meaningless One possible description of Religious language is that it is a form of communication about God, faith, belief and practice. The fact that the things discussed can have many different meanings to different people causes a problem. This being that it can never be easy to discuss e.g. 'the meaning of God' without some conflicting ideas. The reason for this is that we can never really know the truth. Philosopher's say that we use religious language in everyday life e.g. when expressing a faith to a religion. The problem is that religious language is not univocal (it does not have one agreed meaning). There are two forms of verification of the language, strong or weak. If it is strong we have proved it true or false by experience or if it were weak there are some observations that are relevant to proving a...
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