Caroline Franks Davis’s scientific contributions

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The Evidential Force of Religious Experience
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July 1999

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Caroline Franks Davis

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... 12 However, we must be cognizant of the fact that conventional language literality 13 might not be fully understood if the strictly literal content is removed from it. On the other side, the irreducibility of metaphors is a subject of significant scholarly discussion, with many emphasizing its indispensable role in the discourse on the nature of religious language (Davis 1989;Soskice 1985Soskice , 2007Davidson 1978;Searle 1969;Stern 2000;Alston 2019;Camp 2006;Cavell 2015;Moran 1989). The argument posits that, given the divine's transcendent nature, the language used to characterize the divine cannot be literal, as it does not directly refer to empirical concepts. ...

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Analogical Dialectics in Religious Language: Beyond Literal/Metaphorical Reductionism
The Evidential Force of Religious Experience
  • Citing Book
  • July 1999