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But isn't this to say that such assertions are precisely not metaphysical assertions at all, not even "symbolic" metaphysical assertions? Yes – -- and No: Yes, in the sense that they are, as has been said, properly religious rather than properly metaphysical assertions. But also No, in the sense that they're assertions about ultimate reality in its meaning for us as the objective ground of their call for a certain self-understanding, and thus also for believing certain beliefs as well as for performing certain actions. As such, they necessarily imply certain properly metaphysical, and so also literal, assertions about the structure of ultimate reality in itself.

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