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Religious ‘Seeing-As’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

William L. Reese
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany

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The conceptual framework of religion is more like the frame of a picture than the frame of a house; and what goes on within the frame is other than conceptual. This is the hypothesis motivating the analysis which follows. Given the hypothesis, the problem is to conceive what religion is - this other-than-conceptual enterprise which tends to attract conceptual frames. A possible answer is available in Wittgensteinian ‘seeing-as’. A number of philosophers of religion have recently exercised this option. The present paper adds to their work by comparing a number of types of religious seeing-as with the instances of visual ambiguity drawn on by Wittgenstein.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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