Falsification Flashcards
What does Antony flew say
No matter what evidience against a religious statement is presented , a believer will always have a response
What will a believer not allow
Any evidence that goes against their beliefs
What’s Karl popper say
Scientific theory only has meaning if it’s possible to falsify the theory
If we can’t come up with evidence against a statement it must be meaningless
What’s the parable of the gardener show
Statements such as god exists can’t be disproved
As there’s no empirical evidence
So statement is meaningless an can’t be falsified
Explain parable of gardener
Two ppl come across very neat tidy garden
They wonder who take care of it
They wait an see who comes to tidy it
No one comes up so one guy suggests he invisible,intangible and doesn’t make a sound
“Death of a thousand qualifications”
What do symbols do
Represent something
Participates in what it points to
What’s a sign
Points is to smth else
Example of symbol
Poppy represents Remembrance Day
What do symbols communicate
Feelings and belief
What Paul Tillich say
Religious symbols communicate most significant values an beliefs of human beings
Things which are hard to put into words r put into symbols
What Randall say
Symbols help ppl continue their religious life
Symbols provoke responses
What’s motivation (symbol)
Arouse emotion leading people to act
What’s social (symbol)
Brings communities tg
Provides shared identity and values
What’s communication
Expresses emotional aspects of experience
What’s clarification an disclosure
Reveals insight an clarification into divine
What’s four functions of sign (Randall)
Motivation
Social
Communication
Clarification and disclosure
What’s scientific language for
To describe facts ab world
What’s religious language for
Represents mythological and religious belief
Gives insight into meaning and purpose of life
Is religious language meaningful
Only to urself
Not cognitively
What Wittgenstein say
Whole point of language is to communicate pictures to each other
The way we see them pictures is a matter of perspective tho
Wittgenstein quote
If a lion cd speak I wd not be able to understand them
What did diff language games have in common
Nothing
Can religion be analysed in a scientific
It’s followers
Can religion be analysed in a scientific way
No as science is its own language game and vice versa
They got nothing in common
