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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In recent years the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein have received much attention from philosophers in general and especially from philosophers interested in religion; and there is no doubt that Wittgenstein's legacy of thought is both highly suggestive and highly problematical. It seems likely, however, that the vogue which Wittgenstein now enjoys owes not a little to his peculiar place in the development of modern philosophy and, in particular, of that empiricist tradition in philosophy which stems from what has been called the revolution in philosophy in the early decades of the present century.
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page 496 note 2 Ibid. p. 13.
page 497 note 1 Ibid. pp. 135, 137.
page 497 note 2 Ibid. pp. 109 f.
page 498 note 1 Ibid. p. 110.
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page 499 note 3 Forthcoming in Royal Institute of Philosophy publications.
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page 503 note 1 Wittgenstein, L., Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, pp. 53, 55Google Scholar; cf. pp. 58, 59. Phillips, D. Z., The Concept of Prayer (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), p. 18.Google ScholarHudson, W. D. says correctly that they cannot contradict each other ‘because they do not share the same “form of life”’ (Wittgenstein and Religious Belief (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 175)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and not at all (as rather carelessly alleged by Alvin Plantinga in a review) because the unbeliever's ‘God is not wise’ would presuppose the existence of God! Wittgenstein would never have been embarrassed by the question, Have you stopped beating your wife? and Hudson does not suggest that he would have been.
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page 504 note 2 Ibid. p. 628.
page 504 note 3 Ibid. p. 56.
page 505 note 1 Ibid. p. 87; cf. pp. 96, 98.
page 505 note 2 Ibid. pp. 138, 136, 273, 308.
page 505 note 3 Ibid. p. 341; cf. pp. 354, 454, 514, 519.
page 505 note 4 Cf. Ibid. p. 167.
page 505 note 5 Ibid. pp. 140, 141, 151, 167, 94; cf. pp. 102, 105.
page 505 note 6 Ibid. pp. 618; cf. p. 627.
page 506 note 1 Ibid. p. 110; cf. pp. 204, 344.
page 506 note 2 Ibid. p. 460.
page 506 note 3 Ibid. pp. 235, 628.