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Ibid.. p. 14.
Ibid.. p. 110.
Ibid.. p. 7–17.
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Terence Penelhum,Survival and Disembodied Existence, Chapters 2 and 3.
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Terence Penelhumop. cit., p. 20.
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Ibid., p. 25.
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I have attempted to show this in my “Language and the Concept of God,”Question 2 (January 1969).
There are matters of degree here. Martin Hollis is right in claiming that only a rash man would claim to know what Shelley's ‘Life like a dome of many-coloured glass stains, the white radiance of eternity’, means. Yet we are notutterly at a loss here. It is not like music, and where we are rather much at a loss to say what some such sentence means, we would also resist the claim that it said anything which could be true or false. See Martin Hollis,-op. cit.. p. 237.
Alistair Kee,The Way of Transcendence (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Limited 1971), p. 28.
Murdith McLean,op. cit., pp. 213–25.
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Nielsen, K. God, disembodied existence and incoherence. SOPH 26, 27–52 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02781291
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