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Eschatological verification
Eschatological verification: John Hick's proposal that religious statements are verifiable in principle because they will be confirmed or disconfirmed by post-mortem experience; this accepts the verificationist requirement of testability while arguing that the test occurs after death rather than during life.
Language game
A language game is Wittgenstein's term for a distinct form of linguistic activity governed by its own internal rules and purposes, reflecting his argument that language is used in many different ways (describing, commanding, praying, joking), each with its own criteria for meaning.