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It will have surprised many, I suspect, to have seen Malcolm L. Diamond’s article on ‘Wisdom’s Gods.’1 This is not the kind of topic one expects to be discussed in the philosophical theology of the eighties. And it is obvious that Diamond anticipated the possibilities of such a response for he attempts to persuade the reader that he has found a ‘fresh perspective’on Wisdom’s work that makes this ‘rehash’not only acceptable but necessary and important in the fight against positivism.2 That fresh perspective derives from Dia-mond’s apparently recent ‘insight/discovery’that Wisdom’s ‘Gods’concerns the question of the cognitive status of ‘God-talk’and that cognitivity is a positivist issue.3
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Wiebe, D. (1994). The Cognitive Status of Religious Belief. In: Beyond Legitimation. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23668-8_3
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