“It is not within the scope of this enquiry to enter more deeply into the causes of religious feeling, or to discuss the probability of the continuance of religious belief. We are concerned only to answer those questions which arise out of our discussion of the possibility of religious knowledge. The point which we wish to establish is that there cannot be any transcendent truths of religion. For the sentences which the theist uses to express such ‘truths’ are not literally significant.
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Ayer, Donovan and Westphal summary questions with key concepts
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- Why does Ayer claim that assertions made about a transcendent God are not intelligible notions?
- Why does Ayer reject the notion of God with a capital ‘G’?
- Why does Ayer suggest that the atheist and agnostic positions are as untenable as the theist’s?
- What does Ayer mean by asserting the existence of a transcendent god shows nothing but the ‘state of mind’ of the theist?
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