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For a more extended example, consider the concepts of psychological states that figure in the motivation of intentional actions. ...

in Summa Contra Gentiles. “As to the mode of signification, every name is defective” (1955, pt. I, ch. 30). The other main sourc ...

true; call that an exemplar. And he suggests that the exemplar can usefully be taken as a model of life, that considering such a ...

application of functional psychological concepts to God represents a bolder claim for the possibility of literal speech about Go ...

First is the view that talk about God involves the use of “models,” an idea fully developed in Barbour (1974). A model in scienc ...

of Christ, who spoke in human language, using parable; and so we too speak of God in parable—authoritative parable, authorized p ...

able to say about divine knowledge, intentions, desires, tendencies, and so on. What is left over is left to the realm of the in ...

Davidson, Donald, and Gilbert Harman, eds. 1972. Semantics of Natural Language. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel. Pseudo-Dionysius ...

end p.244 10 RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY Nicholas Wolterstorff The Task of Epistemology Religions are highly complex components of ou ...

justified, entitled, reliably formed, certain, and the like; here I'm using a sprinkling of merit-denoting words from the episte ...

case of the epistemology of religion. But since here is not the place to set about correcting that defect, I too will focus on b ...

I should perhaps add, lest there be any misunderstanding, that none of these three lines of thought holds that “anything goes” i ...

end p.249 emerged the idea of a religion rationally grounded in the deliverances of reason and experience. The high medievals, s ...

right, and places it as he should, who in any case or matter whatsoever, believes or disbelieves, according as reason directs hi ...

dizzy, and that evokes in me the corresponding belief that I am feeling dizzy; and so forth. Reason and experience evoke in us w ...

And so it is that we get the conclusion: it's obligatory on all who hold religious beliefs that those be rationally grounded in ...

linguistic: the metaphysician isn't saying anything meaningful. Of course, he thinks he is, or he wouldn't speak and write at su ...

on one's analysis of that meaning the restriction that such sentences cannot be analyzed as being used to make assertions. In hi ...

I will develop. That's also the interpretation most Wittgensteinians adopt, so far as I can tell—though showing this to their sa ...

end p.257 expression of what the dead mean to him and to the people amongst whom he lives. That a man says that God cares for hi ...