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Religious language Flashcards

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what is cognitive

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Factual EG. A triangle has 3 angles which add up to 360 degrees

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What is non cognitive

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Expressions of value/opinion/feeling/emotion EG. “Ouch”

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What is univocal

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The word has exactly the same meaning at all times

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What is equivocal

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The same word is used with multiple completely different meanings eg. love

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5
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When we use human words to describe God what is this called

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anthropomorphisation

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An example of a myth

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Jonah and whale

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Who suggests language is like a game

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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What did Wittgenstein say.. to use language is

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To use language is to participate in a game where we both know and accept the rules

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What did DZ Phillips say to develop Witt’s ideas

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Religious language is meaningful to those who genuinely use it

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What is the basic principle of via negativa

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Talk about God in the negative in order to not anthropomorphise him

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Who came up with via negativa

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Pseudo Dinoysius

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What did Ayer develop

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verification principle

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What types of verification are there

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Strong verification
Logic
Tautology
Experience
Weak verification
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14
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What was the group of philosophers in Vienna in 1920s

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Vienna Circle

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What was the central principle of the Vienna Circle

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Logical Positivism

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What is logical positivism

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A movement in philosophy that believed that the aim of philosophers should be the analysis of language, particularly the language of science. They believe that statements only have meaning if they can be verified empirically or are tautologies.

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what does it mean if something is verified empirically

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It means something can be verified by observation and experience

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What is tautology

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A tautology is a logical statement that we can know to be true by definition

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An example of a tautology

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A bachelor is an unmarried man

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What is the verification principle

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The belief that statements are only meaningful if they can be verified by the senses. There are strong and weak forms of the principle. Two types of statements are meaningful analytic statements, and synthetic statements

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What is weak verification

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Weak verification refers to statements that can be shown to be probable by observation and experienced.

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What would the verification principle believe about God

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It is completely meaningless. This means Ayer is both denying and accepting that God is meaningless. He argues that for a statement to be meaningful it must be either a tautology ( a priori) or verifiable in principle (a posteriori)

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Some evaluations of the verification principle

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  • Many philosophers have said that you cannot verify the phrase ‘statements are only meaningful if they are verified by sense experience’ as this statement cannot be verified by sense experience.
  • It is possible for statements to be meaningful without being verified. Swinburne gives an example of toys in a cupboard that only come alive at night when nobody can see them-it is meaningful because it can be understood but equally unverifiable.
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What is falsification

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The demarcation ( a dividing line) between the scientific and the non-scientific.

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What is eschatological verification

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A statement can be verifiable if true but not falsifiable if false.

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What is a priori

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Used by philosophers to apply to knowledge that is gained irrespective of experience, by reasoning

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What is a posteriori

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Referring to knowledge that is gained by experience

28
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what is a summary of flews argument

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He applied the principle of Karl Poppers idea to religious language. Attempting to falsify information.

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Hare’s response to flew’s argument

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Theory of bliks. He A blik is a particular view about the world that may be based upon reason or fact and that cannot be verified or falsified; it is a basic belief that is not altered despite empirical evidence.

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Via negativa

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The ‘negative way’ A way of talking about God which says what he is not rather than what he is

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Evaluation of via negativa

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  • It recognizes the problem that it’s difficult to imagine what our concepts mean when applied to God
  • It avoids anthropomorphism and supports ideas about God’s transcendence
  • Does it get us any closer to understanding the nature of God?
32
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Who created language games

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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What is the idea of language games

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To speak in any language is to play a certain game. you can only play the game if you know the rules

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Evaluation of language games`

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  • it can alienate those outside of the game

- You can learn to play the game as you learn language

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