Falsification Principle
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- Created on: 27-03-15 10:42
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- Falsification Principle - Anthony Flew
- Cognitive - Fact and Knowledge
- I.e. Dr. Williams teaches at Wellington College
- Non-Cognitive - Expresses Things we could never know i.e. Feeling, value, and metaphysical claims
- i.e Dr. Williams is worth listening too: teachers are a noble breed
- Cognitive - Fact and Knowledge
- Talk of God can implies it can never be falsified
- i.e. I know God loves me in a special mysterious way which no one can question
- If God is a mystery we are not using language in a constructive way
- Falsification Principle - Anthony Flew
- Cognitive - Fact and Knowledge
- I.e. Dr. Williams teaches at Wellington College
- Non-Cognitive - Expresses Things we could never know i.e. Feeling, value, and metaphysical claims
- i.e Dr. Williams is worth listening too: teachers are a noble breed
- Cognitive - Fact and Knowledge
- Language is only meaningful if some evedience to counteract is shown
- i.e. I know God loves me in a special mysterious way which no one can question
- R.M Hare
- 'Blik' A non-rational belief that could not be falsified
- Bliks are not necessarily untrue (some are sane and some insane), but they are groundless.
- Could be applied to Religious Language
- Responses
- John Hick
- 'Blik' A non-rational belief that could not be falsified
- a
student is convinced that his philosophy teacher is trying to kill him
- No Evedience for or against so not untrue or true
- 'Blik' A non-rational belief that could not be falsified
- Bliks are not necessarily untrue (some are sane and some insane), but they are groundless.
- Could be applied to Religious Language
- Reasons Behind Religious Beliefs
- i.e. Experience, Scriptures, NDE's
- John Hick
- No way to distinguish sane or insane bliks
- Religion as insane could only be abritrary
- Reasons Behind Religious Beliefs
- i.e. Experience, Scriptures, NDE's
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