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Cognitive or Non-cognitive? The Religious Language Debate Weighed: the Cognitivist Account, ‘God Exists’ Read Both Ways, Cognitive Content, Contradictions, Which View Is Most Satisfactory, and an Indian–Western Synthesis

• Philosophy of Religion
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Religious Language in Indian Philosophy: Neti Neti, Anirvacanīyatā, Lakṣaṇā and Tat Tvam Asi, Mīmāṃsā’s Vidhi and Arthavāda, Bhartṛhari, the Buddha’s Silence, Apoha and Jaina Avaktavya

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Non-cognitive Theories of Religious Language II: Wittgenstein, Language-Games and Forms of Life — the Last Judgment Lectures, Pictures, Frazer and Ritual, D. Z. Phillips, and Wittgensteinian Fideism

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Non-cognitive Theories of Religious Language I: Emotion, Policy and Story — Emotivism, Santayana, Braithwaite’s Conative Theory, Randall’s Symbols, Naturalist Readings and Non-realism, with Hick’s Objections

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The Falsification Debate: Flew’s Invisible Gardener and the Death by a Thousand Qualifications, Hare’s Bliks, Mitchell’s Partisan and the Stranger, Crombie, Flew’s Rejoinders and Swinburne

• Philosophy of Religion
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The Verification Challenge: Logical Positivism and God-talk, Ayer and Carnap, Strong and Weak Verification, Wisdom’s Gods, the Critiques, and Hick’s Eschatological Verification

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Religious Language as Symbolic: Tillich’s Sign and Symbol, the Six Marks of a Symbol, Being-itself and Ultimate Concern, Myth and Demythologising, Sacred Space and Time, Metaphor and Pratīka

• Philosophy of Religion
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Speaking of God by Negation and Analogy: the Via Negativa, Univocal, Equivocal and Analogical Language, Aquinas’ Analogy of Attribution and Proportionality, Ramsey’s Models and Qualifiers, and the Critics

• Philosophy of Religion
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The Problem of Religious Language: Finite Words for an Infinite God, Religious vs Secular Use, Realism vs Non-realism, and the Map of Cognitive, Analogical, Symbolic and Non-cognitive Theories