This document discusses different philosophical approaches to analyzing religious language: - The Vienna Circle proposed the verification principle, which held that sentences only have meaning if they can be empirically verified, raising issues for religious and ethical claims. Karl Popper proposed the falsification criterion as an alternative. - Wittgenstein argued that language cannot be reduced to propositions and that different "language games" should be analyzed separately rather than by external criteria. However, religion makes broader truth claims than isolated practices like sports fandom. - Religious language raises questions about whether cognitive or non-cognitive analyses best capture its nature and claims. Worshippers may interpret it in different cognitive or non-cognitive ways. Philosophers of religion