Meaning Agnosticism and Pragmatism

This paper proposes to reconsider agnosticism by taking a step onto a meta-level, investigating agnosticism not as an epistemic stance regarding the choice between theism and atheism, but as a stance toward the question concerning the cognitive meaningfulness and/or truth-aptness of religious discou...

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Main Author: Pihlström, Sami 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3
Further subjects:B Theism
B Atheism
B Pragmatism
B Religious Language
B Agnosticism
B Meaning
B Truth
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