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      <journal-meta>
         <journal-id>ZYGO</journal-id>
         <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Zygon®</journal-title>
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         </journal-title-group>
         <issn pub-type="print">0591-2385</issn>
         <issn pub-type="electronic">1467-9744</issn>
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         <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01040.x</article-id>
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            <article-title>ON THE “USE” OF NEOPRAGMATISM</article-title>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Clayton</surname>
                  <given-names>Philip</given-names>
               </name>
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         <pub-date publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="1993-09-02">
            <day>02</day>
            <month>09</month>
            <year>1993</year>
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         <volume>28</volume>
         <issue>3</issue>
         <issue-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/zygo.1993.28.issue-3</issue-id>
         <fpage>361</fpage>
         <lpage>369</lpage>
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            <p>Abstract.  The present article continues an earlier critique of Robbins's and Rorty's neopragmatism. Their skepticism about the traditional concept of correspondence and about the criteria for truth are both unjustified, and their own assertion of meaning as usefulness either presupposes a prior notion of linguistic reference or fails to qualify as a sufficient criterion for knowledge. The difficulties with neopragmatism have implications for two other areas of the religion/science discussion, postmodernism and empirical Theology. Postmodernism shares neopragmatism's mistakes regarding the philosophy of language and can be rejected without endangering one's empiricism, humanism, or naturalism. By contrast, the strengths of empirical Theology, and of religious empiricism in general, can be preserved without Robbins's proposed ban on metaphysics.</p>
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            <kwd>Dewey</kwd>
            <kwd>empirical Theology</kwd>
            <kwd>Lakatos</kwd>
            <kwd>neopragmatism</kwd>
            <kwd>postmodernism</kwd>
            <kwd>realism and reference</kwd>
            <kwd>Rorty</kwd>
            <kwd>scientific method</kwd>
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