The Limitation of Truth-Semantics in the Understanding of Religion
While this article salutes attempts to use Donald Davidson’s principles of radical interpretation in the study of religion in order to avoid the pitfalls of correspondence theory of truth, on the one hand, and cultural relativism, on the other, it suggests that an adequate understanding of religion...
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 447-474 |
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radical interpretation
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truth
criteria of validity
perspicuous
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