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If the determinative use of religious utterances is broadly cognitive, this is because our underlying faith in the ultimate worth of life has an objective ground that evokes and justifies it. We believe that our lives are ultimately meaningful because there is a ground of meaning that makes them so. Consequently, any religious utterance functioning to answer the question made possible by this basic faith necessarily functions implicitly, if not explicitly, in a broadly cognitive way, by enabling us so to understand the ground of faith as to be reassured about our ultimate worth.

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