Propositional Revelation and the Deist Controversy: A Note
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2015.007Keywords
Deism, revelation, meaning, John Locke, John Toland, Peter Browne, George BerkeleyAbstract
In this short paper, I address the question of how propositional revelation was understood by thinkers involved in the Deist controversy in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. I argue that, characteristically for the time, they relied on ideational theory of meaning and, accordingly, explained the content of propositional revelation in terms of subjective mental entities.
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