Religious language A2

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The act of ascribing human language to God.
Anthropomorphism
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Statements that can be proved true of false on evidence.
Cognitive
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Statements that are based on feelings, values or emotions.
Non cognitive.
3 of 13
We should talk about what God is not
The Via Negativa
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A group of Philosophers in the 1920s
The Vienna Circle
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Designers of the weak verification principle.
Logical Positivists
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"Religious believers refuse the possibility that their statements could be falsified, so they are meaningless"
The Falsification Principle
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"These religious statements should be treated as non-cognitive, and so not as falsifiable"
Richard Swinburn
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We can't prove life after death on this side of it, so it is meaningless.
Eschatological Verification
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Religious Statements are not literal facts, they are ________
Symbolic
10 of 13
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent"
Wittgenstein
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"You Cannot play chess while your opponent is playing checkers"
Language Games
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"Religious statements can only be judged by those who accept the rules"
Phillips
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Statements that can be proved true of false on evidence.

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Cognitive

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Statements that are based on feelings, values or emotions.

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Card 4

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We should talk about what God is not

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Card 5

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A group of Philosophers in the 1920s

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