Criticisms of falsification

Richard Hare

• The concept of meaningfulness comes from the impact that a belief has on an individual, not from the empirically verifiable or falsifiable nature of the belief
• He proposed the idea of 'bliks', a term coined to describe a way of looking at our lives and experiences
  • A blik has the power to radically affect our behaviour and the relationship we have with the world and the people around us
• Parable of the university dons and the paranoid student who believes they are causing him harm

Basil Mitchell

• Flew had misunderstood the religious believer's perspective when he stated that religious believers allow nothing to count against their beliefs
• Religious believers are frequently faced…