The Framework of the Third Perspective

Abstract

In addition to the realisation-discovery at its centre there is a framework of intuitions that fill out the Third Perspective. In this chapter I shall draw in that framework. As the religious discovery itself has a grammar so it has grammatical implications, strong or weak, for the interconnected issues of religious cognitivity that we have identified. Drawing in the framework of the Third Perspective is mainly a matter of tracing these implications. In Chapter 1, I drew in the First and Second Perspectives, and identified their strengths, by presenting a range of First- and Second-Perspective stances on the five subissues of the general issue of cognitivity. Here I shall try to bring into focus the framework of the Third Perspective that rests upon, but also complements, the religious discovery by applying the Third Perspective to these same five subissues.