Tag: Meaningfulness
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The Stories of Jesus
The Gospels contain “stories of Jesus”. How did these stories originate, and how did they eventually find their way into the four scrolls, now books, in what ultimately became the New Testament? After his crucifixion, some of Jesus’ followers believed they’d seen him alive again. That, in my view, can reasonably be regarded as fact.…
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Words, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Religion (ii)
In his second thoughts, Wittgenstein, instead of a ‘picture’ theory, suggested a use or tool theory of meaning. A ‘picture’ can only represent a single state of affairs, but a ‘tool’ can be put to a wide variety of ‘uses’. To understand language, we need to look at how it functions in life, at how…
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Words, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Religion (i)
Anyone interested in language is likely to be attracted to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).He began by studying mechanical engineering and then aeronautics, before being inspired, by Bertrand Russell’s ‘The Principles of Mathematics’, to begin study of the philosophy of mathematics under the great man himself. He then started to develop his own ideas…
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