20th Century challenges to religious lanaguage

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Who used the the parable of the stranger or collaborator to illustrate how religious statements are cognitively meaningful?
Mitchell
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Which group of thinkers first used the verification principle?
Logicalpositivists
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Religious language is neither true by definition or verifiable by experience and is described by the Vienna Circle as cognitively ..?
Meaningless
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Who used the parable of the lunatic to illustrate how religious statements are bliks?
Hare
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Who said that religious statements 'die the death of a thousand qualifications'?
Flew
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A statement that is true by obervation is known as?
Synthetic
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Factually significant propositions?
Cognitive
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Which philosopher introduced the weak form of the verification principle?
Ayer
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Hick introduced this principle to show how religious statements are verifiable after death?
Eschatological
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Who inspired the Vienna Circle with his picture theory of language?
Wittgenstein
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What is the name of the theory that words have specific meaning only within the context of a 'form of life'?
Languagegames
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Which parable did Hick use to argue that religious language is cognitively meaningful?
Celestialcity
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Propositions that cannot be proved true or false through empirical knowledge but are still considered meaningful
Noncognitive
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A logical statement that is true by definition is known as?
Analytic
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What is the principle used to test scientific assertions by considering evidence to count against it.
Falsification
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