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Worlds or Words Apart? Wittgenstein on Understanding Religious Language
In John Preston (ed.), Wittgenstein and Reason. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 65–84 (2008)
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Worlds or Words Apart ‐ Wittgenstein on understanding religious language Wittgenstein's conception of what it is to understand religious language ‘conceptual reorientation’‐ in understanding application of a word Wittgenstein in religion ‐ every level of devoutness must have its appropriate form of expression which has no sense at a lower level religious discourse, like aesthetic language use ‐ involving an extension or transformation of everyday discourse
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