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    It is not the case that The foundational link that defines religion must be kept as open as possible, extended to every other without exclusion

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance theory shows that concepts require some boundary conditions to retain meaningful content.
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    • 2.A foundational link extended to 'every other without exclusion' collapses the distinction between religion and non-religion entirely.
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    • 3.Conceptual dissolution is not the same as conceptual openness; radical inclusion undermines rather than enriches the concept.
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    • 1.Rawls and Habermas both argue that public reason requires determinate, bounded commitments to function in pluralist discourse.
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    • 2.Resisting the 'closing of thought' as a normative principle privileges indeterminacy over the legitimate need for institutional and doctrinal specificity in religious life.
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    • 3.Historical religious traditions derive their ethical force precisely from their particular, bounded commitments, as MacIntyre argues in 'After Virtue'.
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    • 1.Derrida seeks to understand the link prior to its determination in terms of man and God
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    • 2.Opening the link as wide as possible resists the englobing or closing of thought thinking itself
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