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Swinburne, Richard
Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1993 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824070-9 |
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doi:10.1093/0198240708.003.0004
Abstract: The words of theology (other than technical terms defined by ordinary words) are either ordinary words with ordinary senses, or ordinary words given analogical sense by weakening the syntactic and semantic rules for their use—i.e. by abandoning some of the normal entailments of the words or by extending the class of paradigm examples to which they apply.Scientists who tell us that protons are both ‘waves’ and ‘particles’ give analogical senses to these terms in just these ways. But, weakening the rules for the use of words makes it more difficult to form the coherence or incoherence of sentences that contain them.
Keywords: analogy, coherence, meaning, theology,
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