A J Ayer
- Created by: Katy Mills
- Created on: 28-11-12 11:40
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- A J Ayer - Verificationism
- General points
- Definitions of Verification
- 'Verifiability in Principle' = Statements we could check if we had the facility to check them
- 'There is life on other planets in the Galaxy Milky Way' - if we had the technology to find out we could do it
- 'Verifiability in Principle' = Statements we could check if we had the facility to check them
- Language tells us something about the way the world is
- Definitions of Verification
- Strengths
- Reminds us that we should be artful when speaking about God
- Distinguishes between sense and nonsense
- Supports the design argument for God as is uses a posterior evidence
- Supports the claim of afterlife and religious experience
- Weaknesses
- This makes most statements meaningless even when people think they make sense
- Swinburne - 'All ravens are (at all times) black' can technically be verified but impossible as you have to see all ravens in the world therefore for verificationistsit's meaningless
- There can be no statement made about history as you cannot go back in time and observe whats already happened
- General points
- Influenced by science - stresses the importance of sense-observation
- General points
- Definitions of Verification
- 'Verifiability in Principle' = Statements we could check if we had the facility to check them
- 'There is life on other planets in the Galaxy Milky Way' - if we had the technology to find out we could do it
- 'Verifiability in Principle' = Statements we could check if we had the facility to check them
- Language tells us something about the way the world is
- Definitions of Verification
- General points
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