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Faith and the Possibility of Private Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. S. Gurrey
Affiliation:
York, England

Extract

That there is a personal, or private, dimension to religious and moral experience is obvious enough. On the face of things we may feel driven even to attach a sense which is essentially personal to the content of propositions relating to those areas of experience. ‘I know what I mean by what he says’, one might say. Or, it might be felt that there is a sense in which each man has a God who is uniquely his own. Just how far can we push this idea of the irreducibly personal meaning, the necessarily individual content to such a moral or religious concept? Can we, in the end, give it an acceptable and unequivocal logical form?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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