Logic in Religious Discourse - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110319187 ISBN 13: 9783110319187

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2010

Synopsis

Knocking on Heaven's Door is the oldest human dream that seems unrealized still. Religious discourse does show the road, but it requires a blind faith in return. In this book logicians try to hear Heaven's Call and to analyze religious discourse. As a result, the notion of religious logic as a part of philosophical logic is introduced. Its tasks are (1) to construct consistent logical systems formalizing religious reasoning that at first sight seems inconsistent (this research is fulfilled within the limits of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and many-valued logic), (2) to carry out an illocutionary analysis of religious discourse (this research is fulfilled in frames of illocutionary logics), and (3) to formalize Ancient and Medieval logical theories used in the theology of an appropriate religion (they could be studied within the limits of unconventional logics, such as non-monotonic logics, non-well-founded logics, etc.).

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110319187
• ISBN 13: 9783110319187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 283
• Editor: Schumann Andrew