religious language
- Created by: kierasanghera
- Created on: 18-05-16 23:56
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- religious language
- verification principle
- for something to be meaningful it must be analytic or empirically verifiable
- but the definition itself is not analytic nor empirically verifiable so statement is meaningless on its own terms
- for something to be meaningful it must be analytic or empirically verifiable
- falsification
- claim is only meaningful if it is logically incompatible with some set of observations
- but if we weakened logically incompatible into evidence against it would be the same as verification
- claim is only meaningful if it is logically incompatible with some set of observations
- cognitivist
- aim to describe how the world is, can be true or false,express beliefs that the claim is true
- non cognitivist
- do not aim to describe the world,cannot be true or false, express attitudes toward the world
- flew (garderner)
- how is an undetectable gardener different from not gardener at all? for something to be meaningful there must be something it denies
- hare (bliks)
- an unshaken attitude or view toward the world (e.g student who thinks his university lecturer's want to murder him)
- mitchell (partisian
- agrees that something must go against the claim for it to be meaningul
- partisan story where you are fighting in war and a stranger tells you he is the leader of the resistance, but acts as if to help the enemy at times,but stranger is trusted and must have a good reason for the behaviour
- a claim can still be meaningful without us saying what experiences would lead us to relinquish it
- we just have to know that experiences can count against it
- a claim can still be meaningful without us saying what experiences would lead us to relinquish it
- partisan story where you are fighting in war and a stranger tells you he is the leader of the resistance, but acts as if to help the enemy at times,but stranger is trusted and must have a good reason for the behaviour
- agrees that something must go against the claim for it to be meaningul
- hick (eschatological verification
- god exists makes no predictions about what will happen in this life but can for the next life (afterlife)
- verification principle
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