Referring to God
It is a current commonplace that if the concept of deity is incoherent then no significant truth-claim is made for a formula like God exists', for it is neither true nor false but meaningless. This is the problem of factual meaning on which such emphasis is laid by critics like A. Flew, R. W....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1974]
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Religious studies
Year: 1974, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-80 |
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| Summary: | It is a current commonplace that if the concept of deity is incoherent then no significant truth-claim is made for a formula like God exists', for it is neither true nor false but meaningless. This is the problem of factual meaning on which such emphasis is laid by critics like A. Flew, R. W. Hepburn, C. B. Martin, K. Nielsen and P. Edwards. I wish here to counter their challenge. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S003441250000055X |