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2. What statement did Swinburne use to show the limits of the verification principle?

  • Bombs help us learn to be good
  • What a beautiful day
  • All ravens are black
  • Jesus was God

3. What is meant by non-cognitive language?

  • Statements that cannot be proved true or false. Expresses things we could never know and often includes feelings and values.
  • Factual statements, proved true or false by empirical evidence.

4. Complete the quote from Ayer: ‘For we shall maintain that no statement which refers to a ‘reality’ transcending the limits of all possible sense-experience can possibly have any literal significance; from which must follow the labours of those who have st

  • production of nonsense.'
  • understanding of the unknown.'
  • advancement of human understanding.'
  • production of valuable knowledge.'

5. What is meant by a blik?

  • Unfalsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are meaningless.
  • Unfalsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are not necessarily meaningless.
  • Falsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are not necessarily meaningless.
  • Unfalsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are meaningful.

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