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the sentence meaning. Metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and other figures are generally thought of as being understood later in this process although in Gilpin's chapter the immediate power of these to affect us is quite clear. Emotion and attitudes are thought of as not understood until after the lingui

take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and su

scribe what religion does in rigorous ways that benefit religion, and religion can serve a meaning-making function that science itself disclaims. Gilpin notes that rifts between science and religion "have centered on whether one can make scientific sense of the notion of divine mind, purpose, or i

f clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards's sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale Univers

ret the sentence meaning. Metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and other figures are generally thought of as being understood later in this process although in Gilpin’s chapter the immediate power of these to affect us is quite clear. Emotion and attitudes are thought of as not understood until after the linguistic

we take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and suffer

n describe what religion does in rigorous ways that benefit religion, and religion can serve a meaning-making function that science itself disclaims. Gilpin notes that rifts between science and religion “have centered on whether one can make scientific sense of the notion of divine 152 Page mind, purpo

ts of clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University