Religious Language - Light notes
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- Religious Language
- The Via Negativa
- God is greater than anything, statements about them could not be accurate
- Language applied to god is equivocal.
- We should instead say things about what god is not
- Ayer and the Weak Verification Principle
- The Vienna Circle - Group of philosophers (1920s).
- Logical positivists - Created the verification principle.
- Any statement that cannot be proved or verified is false.
- Ayer says a statement must have tautology, practical verifiability and verifiability in principle
- The Vienna Circle - Group of philosophers (1920s).
- Analytic and Synthetic statements
- Analytic - Factual statements proved true of false by empirical evidence
- Synthetic statements - Cannot be verified or falsified and depends on context.
- The falsification Principle
- Flew - religious believers tend to refuse to believe that their statements can be falsified even with evidence. So they render their statement meaningless.
- Swinburne - Religious statements are not falsifiable because they are non-cognitive and should be treated as such.
- Braithwaite - Religious statements are basically a moral statement and should be treated as non-cognitive.
- Eschatalogical verification
- It is only possible to verify life after death by dying.
- It is impossible to verify on this side of death.
- Yet people still have faith in it.
- Language Games
- For language of any kind, one needs to understand the rules.
- If someone doesn't understand the rules of language then they cannot be involved in it.
- You can't play chess while your opponent is trying to play checkers.
- Symbolic Language
- Religious statements do not give us true facts about God, they are symbolic.
- The Via Negativa
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