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In this chapter we consider three varieties of hermeneutic fictionalism. The first of these picks up on the fictionalist development of apophatic theology that we touched on in Chapter 2. The second addresses an interesting way of constructing religious fictionalism on the basis that religious ‘believers’ are self-deceived. The third offers, I believe, a successful version of hermeneutic fictionalism but succeeds by diverging from face value theory in only a very modest way.
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Scott, M. (2013). Fictionalism. In: Religious Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033208_14
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