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Full Idea
If the meaning of statements is their use (as Wittgenstein claims), then religious people use religious claims to assert an intention to follow a religious life and morality, and this intention gives their sentences meaning.
Gist of Idea
If meaning is use, then religious sentences have meaning because they are used to assert an intention about how to live
Source
report of R.B. Braithwaite (Empiricist View of Religion [1955]) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
'The Existence of God', ed/tr. Hick,John [Macmillan 1964], p.239