Religious Language

Question 1

What is ‘Hume Fork’?

Question 2

How has Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’ influenced 20th century thinking on religion language?

Question 3

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus quote

Question 4

What was the Vienna Circle?

Question 5

What is Logical Positivism?

Question 6

How have the Vienna Circle and ideas of Logical Positivism influenced 20th century thinking on religious language?

Question 7

What is cognitive language?

Question 8

What is non cognitive language?

Question 9

Who developed the Verification Principle?

Question 10

Who was Ayer inspired by?

Question 11

What are the two types of meaningful language according to Ayer?

Question 12

What other statements does Ayer see as ‘empty of meaning’?

Question 13

What is verification in practice?

Question 14

What is verification in principle?

Question 15

How did Ayer view statements such as ‘God exists’ or ‘God is loving’?

Question 16

Finish the quote from LTL ayer

Question 17

What is Ayer trying to do with his theory?

Question 18

What are some strengths of Ayer’s Verification Principle?

Question 19

What are some weaknesses of Ayer’s Verification Principle?

Question 20

Who came up with the Falsification Prinicple?

Question 21

Who inspired Flew’s ideas?

Question 22

What was Flew’s approach to religious language?

Question 23

What is John Wisdom’s Parable of the Gardener’ and how does it support Flew’s ideas?

Question 24

What does Flew say about religious statements?

Question 25

What are some strengths of Flew's Falsification Principle?

Question 26

What are some weaknesses of Flew's Falsification Principle?

Question 27

What are the three key responses to the challenges from verification and falsification?

Question 28

What is Eschological Verificiation?

Question 29

What two things did Hick claim for religious language?

Question 30

What is the ‘Parable of the Celestial City’ and how does it support Hick’s argument?

Question 31

What are strengths of Hick’s Eschatological Verification?

Question 32

What are weaknesses of Hick’s Eschatological Verification?

Question 33

What are some counter arguments to weaknesses of Hick’s Eschatological Verficiation?

Question 34

How does Hare view religious language?

Question 35

What is Hare’s ‘Parable of the Lunatic’?

Question 36

What are bliks and their importance?

Question 37

What are some strengths of Hare’s Blik Argument?

Question 38

What are some weaknesses of Hare’s Blik argument?

Question 39

Why did Wittgenstein reject both Verification and Falsification?

Answer 39

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Question 40

What is Wittgenstein's Language Games?

Question 41

What does Wittgenstein say about words?

Question 42

What is language connected to?

Question 43

When Wittgenstein says that the word 'God' is not an object, what does he mean?

Question 44

How does Wittgenstein view religious language?

Question 45

What are strengths of Wittgenstein's Argument?

Question 46

What are weaknesses of Wittgenstein's Argument?

Question 47

How do religious believers regard their faith statements?

Question 48

How does Aquinas view religious langauge?

Question 49

What types of language does Aquinas reject?