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| 1468 | If meaning is use, then religious sentences have meaning because they are used to assert an intention about how to live |
| 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. | |||
| From: report of R.B. Braithwaite (Empiricist View of Religion [1955]) by PG - Db (ideas) |