Two 'logic' problems for religious expressivists

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Philosophy

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Religious Studies

Volume

60

First Page

235

Last Page

243

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

Religious expressivism is the view that religious sentences, like ‘God is all-loving’ and ‘God offers us the gift of salvation’, are devoid of cognitive meaning. Such sentences are not truth-evaluable: they cannot be judged as true or false. In Religious Language, Michael Scott asked what explains the seeming logical behaviour of religious sentences if they are not truth-evaluable, as religious expressivists claim. In particular, religious expressivists need to explain (i) how a given religious sentence and its negation seem inconsistent and (ii) how religious sentences could figure in logically valid arguments. In this article, I develop a version of Weak Kleene semantics that could address these two ‘logic’ challenges.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1017/S0034412523000380

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Keywords

Philosophy and religion

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