ABSTRACT

In order for religious language about God to be important and relevant to people it will have to speak of something that is considered to be real, and its expressions will need to refer to something. Unless we want to place the reality of what in religion is considered real, or the referent to the referring expression “God” , in a metaphysical realm, independent of human minds, why we still can consider God to be real will have to be otherwise argued for. I shall consequently now argue that referents constituted mainly as conceptualized with weak dependence on physical characteristics can be considered to be real, without falling back on neither physical nor metaphysical existence.