Ayer (Proof and Religious Language)
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- Religious Language and proof
- Logical Positivism
- Empiricist. tradition of John Locke and Hume - rejects synthetic and a priori knowledge
- Closely linked with Humanist Movement - rejection of religion
- The World is a totality of facts
- Closely linked with Humanist Movement - rejection of religion
- "God Exists"= empirical hypothesis - no evidence for or against
- "Does God exist" - not analytical proposition
- Empiricist. tradition of John Locke and Hume - rejects synthetic and a priori knowledge
- Proof
- Logical Positivism
- Empiricist. tradition of John Locke and Hume - rejects synthetic and a priori knowledge
- Closely linked with Humanist Movement - rejection of religion
- The World is a totality of facts
- Closely linked with Humanist Movement - rejection of religion
- "God Exists"= empirical hypothesis - no evidence for or against
- "Does God exist" - not analytical proposition
- Empiricist. tradition of John Locke and Hume - rejects synthetic and a priori knowledge
- Logical necessities ( 2 + 2 = 4)
- a posteriori synthetic
- Against Teleological/ Ontological (lack of proof)
- Evolution/Hume
- Ontological - Kant - Existence is not a predicate
- Logical Positivism
- Theists/Atheists
- Ayer's argument is just as fatal for atheism and agnosticism as it is for religious belief
- Anselm: God = anayltic statement (no evidence required) - Hume all statements about existence = synthetic
- Theists shoot themselves in foot. "God is beyond human understanding" - makes him unintelligable
- "A transcendent God does not exist" = just as nonsensical as "Transcendent God exists"
- Ayer's argument is just as fatal for atheism and agnosticism as it is for religious belief
- "A transcendent God does not exist" = just as nonsensical as "Transcendent God exists"
- Regularity in the world
- God apparent in regularit of nature - doesnt tell us anything more then the fact regularit is present in nature. Link to Humes critique of Design argument
- God cannot be defined through his apparent manifestations
- God apparent in regularit of nature - doesnt tell us anything more then the fact regularit is present in nature. Link to Humes critique of Design argument
- Logical Positivism
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