falsification principle - Antony Flew Flashcards
1
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Karl Popper’s involvement
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“science is more concerned with falsification of hypothesis than with the verification.”
2
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flew
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religionists say ‘God’s love is incomprehensible’ because they cannot explain why God should allow for the death of a child due to an inoperable illness.
> ‘die a death of a thousand qualifications.
3
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parable of gardener
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took John Wisdom’s parable of gardener
a believer’s statement about God can be made to fit into any circumstance, it is not meaningful and has no empirical implications
i.e. weeds and flowers but didnt see the garnder so it must be invisable