The Supernatural as Language Game

Abstract. For many in the Anglo-American tradition of language analysis, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great progenitor of twentieth-century philosophy of language, showed conclusively that theological terms lack any referent in reality and therefore represent a discourse that can do no more than manifes...

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Main Author: Klein, Terrance W. 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-380
Further subjects:B Ontology
B Mysticism
B Solipsism
B Thomas Aquinas
B Critique of Pure Reason
B Self
B Noumena
B ostensive definition
B empirical science
B language game
B ontos
B picture theory
B Immanuel Kant
B Ludwig Wittgenstein
B Philosophical Investigations
B Logic
B God
B Bertrand Russell
B Aristotle
B Nature
B correspondence theory of truth
B philosophy of science
B Metaphysics
B symbolic logic
B Logos
B Grammar
B heuristic synthesis
B Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
B theory of language
B language analysis
B empirical verification
B Vienna Circle
B phenomena
B supernature
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