6. What parable did Mitchell use to illustrate his ideas?
The Partisan
The Parable of the Gardener
The Lunatic and the University Dons
7. Who argued that religious statements were expressions of a blik?
R.M. Hare
Basil Mitchell
Anthony Flew
8. Who argued that religious statements suffer death by a thousand qualifications?
Basil Mitchell
Karl Popper
Antony Flew
R.M. Hare
9. Which philosopher was not part of the falsification symposium?
Karl Popper
R.M. Hare
Antony Flew
Basil Mitchell
10. What is meant by cognitive language?
Factual statements, proved true or false by empirical evidence.
Statements that cannot be proved true or false. Expresses things we could never know and often includes feelings and values.
11. Which of the following statement is not a tautology?
Mark is a bachelor
Bachelors are unmarried men
Triangles have three sides
2+2=4
12. R.M. Hare concluded that religious language was...
Vacuous
Non-Cognitive
Cognitive
13. What is meant by a blik?
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 meaningless.
Unfalsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are meaningful.
14. 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.'
advancement of human understanding.'
production of valuable knowledge.'
understanding of the unknown.'
15. Flew argued religious statements are ultimately...
Statements made on incomplete evidence
Meaningful
Vacuous
Expressions of a Blik
16. What statement did Swinburne use to show the limits of the verification principle?
Bombs help us learn to be good
All ravens are black
Jesus was God
What a beautiful day
17. Who argued that we were entering a new phase of ‘positivism’ after going through the ‘theological’ and ‘metaphysical’ phase.
Auguste Comte
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A.J. Ayer
Moritz Schlick
18. What does the term Lebensform mean?
Life of Language
Form of Life
Form of Language
Language of Life
19. Mitchell ultimately concludes...
Religious language is meaningful but statements are made using ambiguous evidence.
Religious language is an expression of an unfalsifiable worldview.
Religious language is meaningless because statements are made using ambiguous evidence.
