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The Intelligibility of Religious Language: Two Standpoints
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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‘An honest religious thinker’, Wittgenstein remarked, ‘is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it’.
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