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  • Created on: 21-05-14 13:36
Define realists?
Those who believe that a statement is true if it corresponds to an actual state of affairs.
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Define anti- realists ?
Those who believe a statement is true if it fits in (coheres) with other true statements. Reality is separate from language.
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Define equivocal ?
The same word is used with a different meaning or is ambiguous.
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Define univocal ?
The same word is used with exactly the same meaning.
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Define empiricism ?
The view that knowledge is based on experience through five senses.
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Define the meaning of the Verification Principle ?
The theory that the senses are only meaningful if they can be verified by the senses.
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Define the meaning of the Falsification Principle ?
The theory that the sentences are only meaningful is some evidence can count against them.
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Define a 'blik' ?
A word coined by R M Hare to mean a way of looking at the world
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Define the world Symbol?
something that represents something else and evokes participation.
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Define a 'myth' ?
A symbolic story that tries to explain a fundamental issue about the purpose of existence.
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Define the term 'Language Games' ?
A term used by Wittgenstein to refer to any particular context in which language is used.
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Define univocal ?

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