Interpretation

• R.F. Holland (1923-2013)

  • Part of a group: 'Swansea Wittgensteinians'
  • Lecturer at the Uni of Swansea, 1950-1965
  • Influenced by Rush Rhees, who met Wittgenstein
• Holland liked to use story telling and anecdotes to illustrate his ideas
• Problems with realist and anti-realist views

  • Realist and anti-realist accounts of miracles depend on the interpretation and beliefs of those doing the interpretation
• God blind- No sense of God's presence
• Partially God-sighted

  • Aware of God, but only in exceptional circumstances
• Slightly more God sighted- Aware of God in the less spectacular
• Truly God sighted- Aware of God at all times, everything is miraculous