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2. Which parable did Antony Flew present to illustrate his argument?

  • The Invisible Gardener
  • The Lunatic
  • The Partisan and the Stranger

3. Strong Verification...

  • All of these
  • Makes all historical events and artistic interpretation meaningless
  • Makes scientific laws meaningless
  • Cannot verify universal statements

4. Which of the following criticisms on the weak verification principle did Richard Swinburne put forward?

  • Eschatological verification - talk of God might be verifiable in principle, there's no evidence now but there may be in the future
  • There are propositions that no one knows how to verify but are still not meaningless - "Toys come out of their cupboards at night."
  • The principle contradicts itself - the verification principle can't verify the verification principle

5. What is a Blik and who came up with it?

  • A way of seeing the world that is very uncommon - R M Hare
  • A way of seeing the world that is impossible to falsify or verify - R M Hare
  • A way of seeing the world that is impossible to falsify or verify - Basil Mitchell
  • A way of seeing the world that is impossible to test - Basil Mitchell

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