Ayer ( Morality & Science)
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- Morality and Science
- only statements of science and logic can be anaylsed.
- Dawkins
- For something to bed proved there must be empirical data to support it
- HOWEVER - ‘I believe the existence of God as a scientific hypothesis is at least in principle, investigable
- Dawkins
- No way to test morality
- Moral statements are outside the scope of testing
- much like how God is wbeyond the scope of testing - superior to empirical world
- Stleaing is wrong - cannot test this tatement - meaningless
- Hurrah - Boo Theory.
- You were wrong to steal that money - just an expression of feeling "boo"
- It is good to tell the truth - just an expression of feeling - Hurrah
- Stevenson
- statements in which value terms likes good, evil, right, and just appear are not empirical statements, for they do not describe the world. As such, value statements — like theological and metaphysical statements — are nonsensical.
- Pseudo Propositions
- statements in which value terms likes good, evil, right, and just appear are not empirical statements, for they do not describe the world. As such, value statements — like theological and metaphysical statements — are nonsensical.
- Hurrah - Boo Theory.
- Moral statements are outside the scope of testing
- EMOTIVISM - LINK TO MACINTYRE - EMOTIVISM IS SIMPLY US GIVING EMOTIONAL PREFERNCES
- No way to test morality
- Moral statements are outside the scope of testing
- much like how God is wbeyond the scope of testing - superior to empirical world
- Stleaing is wrong - cannot test this tatement - meaningless
- Hurrah - Boo Theory.
- You were wrong to steal that money - just an expression of feeling "boo"
- It is good to tell the truth - just an expression of feeling - Hurrah
- Stevenson
- statements in which value terms likes good, evil, right, and just appear are not empirical statements, for they do not describe the world. As such, value statements — like theological and metaphysical statements — are nonsensical.
- Pseudo Propositions
- statements in which value terms likes good, evil, right, and just appear are not empirical statements, for they do not describe the world. As such, value statements — like theological and metaphysical statements — are nonsensical.
- Hurrah - Boo Theory.
- Moral statements are outside the scope of testing
- only statements of science and logic can be anaylsed.
- Dawkins
- For something to bed proved there must be empirical data to support it
- HOWEVER - ‘I believe the existence of God as a scientific hypothesis is at least in principle, investigable
- Dawkins
- No way to test morality
- only statements of science and logic can be anaylsed.
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