Theme 4 Religious Language Univocal Language could not describe God , God is so different from us Equivocal language a word would probably would have a different meaning Aquinas uses analogy, imperfect way understand God but analogy must be fully understood, for example Paley’s Watchmaker There is a link between humans and God, we are made in the likeness
Religious Language - A Level Philosophy Religious Language Michael Lacewing enquiries@alevelphilosophy co uk Univocal language Objection: this doesn’t do justice to the transcendence of God Aquinas on analogy Analogy of attribution Organisms are literally healthy (or not); food is healthy (or not) by analogy Food that is healthy causes organisms to be healthy
Introduction to Item Response Theory When LI is violated, this is called local dependence (LD) LI and unidimensionality are related Highly univocal scales can still have violations of local independence (e g item content, etc )
POST-STRUCTURALISM - Ankara Üniversitesi They concentrate on a single passage and analyze it so intentionally that it becomes impossible to sustain a “univocal” reading and the language explodes into “multiplicities of meaning”
Ethical and religious language - alevelphilosophy. co. uk Realism Virtues and the search for the good life Human situation and human nature Overlap Matters of life and death Psychic ‘wholeness’ Ethical and religious language Michael Lacewing enquiries@alevelphilosophy co uk Aquinas on analogy Univocal language Objection: this doesn’t do justice to the transcendence of God
POST-STRUCTURALISM Concentrateon a single passage and analyze it so intentionally that it becomes impossible to sustain a “univocal” reading and the language explodes into “multiplicities of meaning” Lookfor shifts and breaks of various kinds in the text and see these as evidence of what is repressed or glossed over or passed over in silence by the text
Lectures on Humes Treatise: 1 , rather than conceiv’d, and approaches the impression, from which it is deriv’d, in its force and influence ” T App 9) Is “Force and Vivacity” Univocal? Hume’s hydraulic theory seems to assume that a single dimension of “force and vivacity” can capture the differences between: An impression of X