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Kroesbergen, Hermen
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2015-02-19T13:13:19Z |
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2015-02-19T13:13:19Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-03 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article attempts to take up Wittgenstein’s challenge “Not empiricism
and yet realism” (1991:vi 23). Language deals with reality. But we are also
aware of the importance of the context with its own rules for the use of
language. In trying to do justice to both sides, theology and philosophy of
religion have been going back and forth between realism and non-realism.
Two recent appraisals of the Wittgensteinian approach in philosophy of
religion by Labron and Burley suggest that there is a way to avoid this
dynamic. After analysing Labron and Burley’s suggestions and their own
failures to live up to the task they set themselves, this article presents an
interpretation of D.Z. Phillips’s concept of ‘ordinary realism’ to help us
to stay clear from the deadlock between realism and non-realism. Our
different perspectives should be regarded as viewpoints within the same
reality. Taken up in our many different and diverse language-games are our
primitive dealings with reality. |
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hb2015 |
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http://ngtt.journals.ac.za/ |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Kroesbergen, H 2014, 'Beyond realism and non-realism : religious language-games and reality', Dutch Reformed Theological Journal/Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, vol. 55, no. 1 pp. 189-204. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0028-2006 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2226-2385 (online) |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43735 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University |
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dc.rights |
2014 © DEWAAL NEETHLING TRUST |
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dc.subject |
Non-realism |
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dc.subject |
Realism |
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dc.subject |
Philosophy of religion |
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dc.subject |
Reality |
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dc.subject |
Wittgenstein |
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dc.subject |
Language-games |
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dc.subject |
Realisme |
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dc.subject |
D.Z. Phillips |
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dc.subject |
Nie-realisme |
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dc.subject |
Taal-speletjies |
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dc.subject |
Filosofie van godsdiens |
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dc.title |
Beyond realism and non-realism : religious language-games and reality |
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dc.type |
Article |
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