The one who defines is the one who decides what's in and what'’s out, who understands and who doesn't, and who speaks knowledgeably and who doesn't. This is especially true if one is committed to the admissibility of only real definitions:
This means everyone has their own definition of religion, and the the people who speak knowledgeable means they are committed to their definition.
prototypicality
This means denoting the first, original, or typical form of something.
by adherents to have a transcendent realj ODjective terms. reli 8 cant ey human design.
This means religion is a transcendent by those who choose to support it.
forms of life predicated on the reality of the superempirical”
This means forms of life are a transcendent of the empirical.
“normative practices that at least implicitly make ontological claims in terms of which the practical norms are authorized”
This means evaluating something that is not directly expressed, to make claims towards the fact that god exist from premises.
superempirical
This means experienced or experiencing by more than empirical.
definiendyum
this means a word, phrase or symbol which is the subject of a definition, especially in a dictionary entry, or which is introduced into a logical system by being defined.
Provisional
This means arranged or existing for the present possibly to be changed.
conceptual,
This means relating to or based on mental concepts.
distil
Another word for distil is purify
empirical
Another word for empirical is factual.
Some con- clude that instead of attempting to define religion the study of religion\s should focus its efforts elsewhere: to “focus on deconstructing the category and analyzing its function within popular discourse”
This means that instead of trying to find a definition of religion we should focus on analyzing the internal assumptions, and analyze its purposes within the popular debate.
rists who insist that there is
"Critical theorists who insist that there is simply no such thing as religion." In class on Friday we talked about how religion is very hard to define. This is because everyone has their own definition due to what they were taught in there earlier life.
the first stage, one needs to delimit the subject area und etymology of ‘definition? whi ch derives from the Latin ing ‘to limit, end? The most frequent ancient Greek term from 8pioya (horisma), literally a marked boundary in S in the research process, In er investigation. This recalls the verb definire (de+finire), mean- translated as ‘definition derives an earth-measuring sense.
indefinability means that something is impossible to define, describe, or analyze.
DEFINITION
indefinability means that something is impossible to define, describe, or analyze.