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2. What could a statement be to be possibly verifiable using the STRONG verification principle?

  • analytic (including mathematical), synthetic and true by confirmation of the senses.
  • mathematical and historical
  • analytic but not synthetic

3. Why did Wittgenstein compare language to games?

  • language is colourful like the balls from various games
  • there are rules that need to be followed and it cannot be understood if you do not know the rules
  • it is fun

4. What is the verification principle?

  • a statement that cannot be verified must be meaningless
  • if a statement can be proven false it is meaningful

5. What is via negativa/ the apophatic way?

  • describing God in terms of what he is not
  • describing God negatively
  • describing what God is

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