religious language 20th centruy philosophers 0.0 / 5 ? PhilosophyRealismA2/A-levelOCR Created by: lizzlemanizzleCreated on: 23-05-19 11:10 define logical positivism a movement: claiming that assertions have to be empirically tested if they are to be meaningful 1 of 12 define cognitive factual quality - words are labels for things in this world 2 of 12 define non-cognitive not having factual quality-words are tools to achieve something rather than labels for things 3 of 12 defne empirical available to be experienced by the senses 4 of 12 define falsification providing evidence to determine something is false 5 of 12 define demythologising removing mythical elements from narrative to expose the central message 6 of 12 who was the main logical positivist A J ayer 7 of 12 what did he propose a series of tests to judge the meaningfulness of language 8 of 12 what are the two ways that words or phrases might mean something denotation and connotation 9 of 12 what does denotation mean word stands for soemthing: e.g. window, its a area of glass on the wall (literal) which can be taken at face value 10 of 12 what does a connotation mean when a word carries associations with it: window, e.g. carry associations of oppurtunity, finding space in a busy period. 11 of 12 what is a problem for connotation it can be interpreted in ways that the speaker didn't intended, different in different contexts. 12 of 12
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