The Falsification Debate
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- The Falsification Debate
- Karl Popper
- Once Popper introduced the notion of falsification it illustrated how statements could be proved falsifiable
- R.M. Hare
- Hare's notion of 'Bliks'
- A belief that is life-changing but cannot be verified or falsified
- University Student example - a university student who is paranoid that all his teachers are against and out to get him
- The student has an insane blik, whilst we have a sane blik. We still have a blik due to there being two sides to any argument.
- University Student example - a university student who is paranoid that all his teachers are against and out to get him
- A belief that is life-changing but cannot be verified or falsified
- John Hick believes that Hare's notion of bliks contain an inconsistency
- Hare provides no basis for distinguishing between right or wrong + sane or insane bliks
- Hare argues that the concept of blik shows what we are doing when we make a religious statement.
- It is not merely a sort of explanation of the world, but is completely life-changing, even though unfalsifiable.
- Hare's notion of 'Bliks'
- Basil Mitchell
- He wanted to maintain that religious statements are genuinely factual though not straightforwardly falsifiable
- Basil Mitchell's Parable of the Partisan
- John Hick
- Hick added to Mitchell's parable
- Presumably, the stranger himself knows whether he is telling the truth, even though the partisan is not in a position to make the judgement so there is a truth to be known about the statement
- When the war is over, the truth will come out - either the stranger is hailed a hero or seen as a traitor
- Presumably, the stranger himself knows whether he is telling the truth, even though the partisan is not in a position to make the judgement so there is a truth to be known about the statement
- Eschatological verification
- Believers with specific after beliefs will be able to verify if true, but not falsify them if they are false
- Hick added to Mitchell's parable
- Falsification
- A proposition is scientific if one can state what evidence would prove it false
- The University Debate
- Symposium that involved Anthony Flew, Basil Mitchell, and R.M Hare.
- In the symposium, they discussed Popper's conclusions and falsification in relation to religion
- Symposium that involved Anthony Flew, Basil Mitchell, and R.M Hare.
- Antony Flew
- Flew believed that for an assertion to be genuine, it must be falsifiable
- Antony Flew used his Parable of the Garden to illustrate different perceptions but does not dismiss religious statements as meaningless
- Antony Flew's Parable of the Gardener
- Karl Popper
- Antony Flew
- Flew believed that for an assertion to be genuine, it must be falsifiable
- Antony Flew used his Parable of the Garden to illustrate different perceptions but does not dismiss religious statements as meaningless
- Antony Flew's Parable of the Gardener
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