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D. Z. Phillips, Wittgenstein and Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Brian R. Clack
Brian R. Clack
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Department of Theology and Religious StudiesKing's College LondonStrand London WC2R 2LS
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Religious Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 111 - 120
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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2 This assertion reminds one of Evan-Pritchard's description of ‘mystical notions’ as ‘patterns of thought that attribute to phenomena supra-sensible qualities which… they do not possess’. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), p. 229.Google Scholar

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