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Referring to God

✍ Scribed by William P. Alston

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
893 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7047

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

It is commonly supposed that one succeeds in referring to God only if one employs, or at least has in reserve, a description that uniquely picks out God, e.g., 'the absolutely perfect being', or 'creator of the universe'. As the above disjunction indicates, the view might be that S refers to X only if S "has" a description true only of X, or it might be, more strongly, that S refers to X only if

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