Hare Response To Falsification

Question 1

What is R.M Hare response to falsification?

Answer 1

He explains religious statements as meaningful

Question 2

R.M Hare: ‘Bliks’

What is bliks ?

Answer 2

Lens you have of framework of interpretation to see the world so your world view you have and your interpretation and experience everything through that lens
- tells you how to interpret the world, way of seeing things, non cognitive for meaningful religious statements

Question 3

R.M Hare: ‘Bliks’

What does blik link to ?

Answer 3

Psychology: schema

Question 4

R.M Hare: ‘Bliks’

What is psychology link :schema ?

Answer 4

We have framework in our mind of how we see the world shaped by our upbringing, childhood experience and taught by parents and upbringing we experience the world differently

Question 5

R.M Hare: ‘Bliks’

What is an example a blik ?

Answer 5

Christians see the world differently to Hindu due to different lens/framework of world affects how make sense of the world us and what it means

Question 6

What does R.M Hare say about bliks

Answer 6

Can be good or bad

Question 7

What example does RM hare use for bliks being good or bad ?

Answer 7

Example of parable of a lunatic

Question 8

R.M Hare: ‘Bliks’ can be good or bad

What is the parable of the lunatic

Answer 8

• So a lunatic is convinced that all Oxford university lectures want to murder him IN HIS LENS
• so his friend decides to introduce him to the nicest/respected lectures to prove that he is wrong
• lunatic says they’re a pretending to be nice and still want to kill him
• must be another explanation
• hare says lunatic is deluded and no behaviour can show lunatic to be wrong or falsify his beliefs
• SO LUNATIC HAS A BLIK that all lectures want to murder him shaping way HE interprets WORLD to fix him lens

Question 9

Overall argument of hare

Answer 9

• religious statement should no be falsified because it’s a blik/lens/framework of interpretation meaningful to those who believe
• so flew cannot make theist see differently
• religious statements not meaningless but a blik

Question 10

3 strengths of bliks by RM HARE

Answer 10

1. Analogy is successful and works and a strong case
2. Allows religious language to be meaningful influencing people’s lives
3. Consistent with cognitive psychology, mental framework as each person interpret things in world differently

Question 11

What are the 2 weakness of Bliks by RM HARE

Answer 11

1.Richard Dawkins: says what is the difference between blik and brainwashing as teaching belief with no evidence by upbringing
2. If religious statements are bliks then cannot be proven true or false as beyond facts and subjective on understanding as non cognitive

Question 12

What is the difference between flew and hare

Answer 12

Flew : religious statements are meaningless - assertion of the world and cognitive and factual so non falsifiable
Hare : religious statements are meaningful, non cognitive and non factual