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Ayer on Religious Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2023

Stephen Law
Stephen Law*
Affiliation:
Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Oxford, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: stephen.law@conted.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

Here is a brief introduction to Ayer's radical criticism of religious belief. According to Ayer, a sentence like ‘God exists’ doesn't assert something false; rather, it fails to assert anything at all.

Keywords

Ayerreligionreligious languageverification
Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 22 , Issue 63 , Spring 2023 , pp. 63 - 66
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Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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