Religious Language Mindmap
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- Created on: 26-04-13 18:10
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- Religious Language
- Analogy
- Verification
- A.J. Ayer
- Analytic
- Synthetic
- Meaningful statements.
- Analytic
- Synthetic
- Meaningful statements.
- Meaningful statements.
- Synthetic
- Analytic
- Meaningful statements.
- Synthetic
- Analytic
- A.J. Ayer
- Myth
- Language Games
- Wittgenstein
- Whereof one cannot talk, one must remain silent.
- If we cannot conceptualize something then we cannot talk about it meaningfully.
- Whereof one cannot talk, one must remain silent.
- A statement is true if it fits in with other statements.
- Wittgenstein
- Falsification
- Myth
- Verification
- A.J. Ayer
- A.J. Ayer
- As people understand the rules of games, religious people understand the rules of religion.
- Language has meaning for people involved in the particular language game.
- Compared language to games.
- Language Games
- Wittgenstein
- Whereof one cannot talk, one must remain silent.
- If we cannot conceptualize something then we cannot talk about it meaningfully.
- Whereof one cannot talk, one must remain silent.
- A statement is true if it fits in with other statements.
- Wittgenstein
- As people understand the rules of games, religious people understand the rules of religion.
- If you want to play the game you have to know the rules.
- Language Games
- Compared language to games.
- Statement which has in it everything needed to verify it.
- e.g. bachelors are unmarried men.
- Statements which can be verified using empirical evidence.
- Religious statements
- We cannot find empirical evidence for statements such as God is love therefore they are meaningless.
- Non-cognitive metaphysical statements.
- Unverifiable synthetic statements
- Meaningless
- Religious statements
- We cannot find empirical evidence for statements such as God is love therefore they are meaningless.
- Non-cognitive metaphysical statements.
- Meaningless
- Verifiable in principle
- Weak Verification
- Say what evidence would need to be found to verify it.
- Verifiable in principle
- Weak Verification
- Verifiable in principle
- Flew
- Falsification
- Parable of the gardner
- Nothing different about nothing and the invisible, senseless etc. gardener
- Know what evidence would have to be found to falsify something
- To verify all ravens are black I would have to find a raven which isn't black.
- Religious language can be understood as myth.
- Not factually correct but has important truths and meanings.
- Bultmann
- demythologizing
- Not wrong still has important truths.
- No evidence for Bible
- demythologizing
- No evidence for Bible
- Periodic table and dinning table.
- Same word used in completely different senses.
- Same word to mean the same thing.
- Saying we know nothing of God at all.
- Same word used in completely different senses.
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