Logical Positivism
Religious Language
- Created by: Liv_Houston
- Created on: 19-01-18 00:03
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- LOGICAL POSITIVISM
- Logical Positivists
- Vienna Circle
- 'Anti-Idealist'- things must be empirical
- Hume's Fork: Only two meaningful propositions
- 'Matters of fact'-synthetic empirical statements
- 'Relations of idea'- analytic necessary, nonempirical statements
- Verification Principle
- Factual meaning if and only if it's empirically verifiable
- Formal meaning if and only if it's analytic or self-contradictory
- Factual meaning if and only if it's empirically verifiable
- Cognitive meaning if and only if it has formal or factual meaning
- Formal meaning if and only if it's analytic or self-contradictory
- Formal meaning if and only if it's analytic or self-contradictory
- Influences
- Anthony Flew and Falsification
- Cognitively meaningless if there aren't times in which it can be falsified
- John Hick and eschatological verification
- Richard Braithewaite
- Religious utterances are moral statements
- Anthony Flew and Falsification
- Problems
- Fails to meet its own criteria- it is neither synthetic nor analytic so is meaningless
- Illogical- we must know the meaning of a sentence at the outset to verify it
- Impossible to formulate in a satisfactory way
- Logical Positivists
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