Sentences with phrase «useful fictions whose»
The first of these is the instrumentalist claim that religious models are useful fictions whose function is the expression and evocation of distinctive attitudes.
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«Useful fictions» are no longer useful if they are recognized as fictions or treated as «parables» whose truth or falsity is taken to be irrelUseful fictions» are no longer useful if they are recognized as fictions or treated as «parables» whose truth or falsity is taken to be irreluseful if they are recognized as fictions or treated as «parables» whose truth or falsity is taken to be irrelevant.
Some parables, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, are indeed «useful fictions» whose only point is to recommend attitudes, policies for living, «rules and roles».