Religious Language
- Created by: lavithedemon
- Created on: 09-04-16 10:51
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- Religious Language
- verificationism
- from cognitivism, which expresses facts and knowledge.
- factual. subject to proof
- non - cognitivism - expression of concepts that we could never know.
- subjective - about us and the responses under the form of emotions
- in order to prove something true, it needs to be logical and scientifically tested
- has to be conclusively verifiable
- if not, it is meaningless
- analytic propositions
- true by definitions (maths or science)
- synthetic propositions
- true by confirmation of the senses (feelings)
- has to be conclusively verifiable
- Ayer
- religious language not verifiable
- no plausible claims
- weak verification principle
- we might know things by setting up standards for satisfactory verifications
- religious language not verifiable
- criticism
- we are not able to verify everything. Eg History
- eschatological verifiability
- verificationist claim cannot itself be verified analytically or empirically
- from cognitivism, which expresses facts and knowledge.
- falsificationism
- idea that any positive claim we make also assumes that we deny its negation
- scientific terms can be falsified
- religious langages - cannot be falsifiable and everything would be considered as meaningless
- idea that any positive claim we make also assumes that we deny its negation
- language games
- Wittgenstein
- there is a fundamental language for everything
- we understand the language only if we understand the context of the words
- there might be conventiona or unconventional ways to talk about God
- Criticism
- relativistic, allowing that any claims are equally valid
- irrationalism and blind faith - no reason used
- verificationism
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