RE is ‘a non-empirical occurrence that brings with it an awareness of something beyond ourselves’
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Tyler - Religious Experience - Strength
‘if the sheer weight of testimony to religious experience is taken into account, then the debate about whether religious experience is proof of the existence of God would end with a resounding ‘yes’’
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Tyler- Religious Experience - Weakness
‘The main difficulty with religious experiences is that they cannot be verified by objective, empirical testing’
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Tyler - Religious Language / Analogy
‘Religious language is difficult because our words are not adequate to speak about a transcendent God who is about and beyond all human experience’... Analogy ‘offers a way of resolving the problems caused by univocal and equivocal language’
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Tyler - Metaethics
‘examines the issue of what we mean when we say that a thing or an action is good, bad, right, wrong, moral or immoral.’
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Tyler - Emotivism
‘The fallacy that emotivism attempts to espouse, however, is that ethical statements are treated as if they assert facts.’
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Tyler - Religious Experience - Strength
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‘if the sheer weight of testimony to religious experience is taken into account, then the debate about whether religious experience is proof of the existence of God would end with a resounding ‘yes’’
I would be quite wary of actually quoting the revision guide- i think primary sources from actual philosophers would be better. even so, it is a good resource for those who need quick quotes :)
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