Philosophers Flashcards
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Wittgenstein
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Language Games
2
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The Verification Principle
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. If a statement is neither in a analytic nor empirically verifiable,it says nothing about reality and is therefore meaningless- AJ Ayer
3
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Verification objection
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Hicks story of the Celestial City. Eschatological verification, just because we cannot prove God exists now doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist
4
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Falsification principle
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Flew,instead we should try dissprove a statement rather than find evidence to prove it
5
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Bliks
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Hare-ways of regarding the world which are neither verifiable nor falsifiable
