Wittgenstein

• What did Wittgenstein come up with?


  Language games
• What are language games?


  Language is a game, which we know how to play when we know the rules

  We accept words are used in certain ways because we recognise the role they have in the game
• What are definitions according to Wittgenstein?

  Groundless beliefs
• What did Wittgenstein think about religious beliefs?

  They shape the world and the way we think, it they are groundless as we can’t produce any evidence for them
• What did D. Z. Phillips say about religious language?


  It is just a way of defining the rules of the game of religion

  Religious language is meaningful to those who genuinely use it and doesn’t need to be justified to those who do not participate in the game
• Who supports D. Z. Phillips’ view?

  Peter Donovan