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The very phrase shocks. What indeed is a “logic of religious discourse” or a “logic of religion,” let alone “the logic of religion.”1 But Father Bocheński seems glad to shock and to lead us to the portals of a “relatively unexplored field” of a highly general kind. Ultimately the aim would be “to formulate a general logic of religion applicable to all great religions rather than to a particular religion.” But for the present, he says in effect, we must remain at the portals only and survey the general terrain.
“Qui A Muce Nucleum Vult, Frangat Nucem.”
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J. M. Bocheński, The Logic of Religion (New York University Press, New York: 1965).
See especially W. V. Quine, Set Theory and Its Logic (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge: 1963) and cf. Martin Davis, “First-order, Second-order and Higher-order Logic,” an address before the Association for Symbolic Logic, December 27, 1963.
On non-translational semantics, see Truth and Denotation, Chapters VIII, IX, and XII.
See, however, Bocheński’s Appendix and his much-discussed earlier paper “On Analogy,” in A. Menne, Logico-Philosophical Studies (Reidel, Dordrecht: 1962).
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Martin, R.M. (1974). On Bocheński’s Logic of Religious Discourse. In: Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme and Other Papers . Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1610-0_9
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