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Informative Discourse and Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

William L. Power
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy and Religion, The University of Georgia

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It is a fact that human beings attempt to discourse about God. The question is: can they? In this paper I want to discuss the problem of man's endeavour to speak and write meaningfully about God. In the first part of the paper, I will discuss the informative function of language and the conditions under which one can use language intelligibly to communicate information about a particular concrete individual or object. In the second part of the paper, I will attempt to apply my remarks to the problem of discourse about God and to show how God can be understood as a concrete individual by employing the metaphysical categories of C. S. Peirce.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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