Religious Language

Question 1

Cognitive language

Answer 1

Can be known true or false

Question 2

Non cognitive

Answer 2

Emotions or questions that can’t be proven true or false

Question 3

What did logical positivist a aim to prove?

Answer 3

That religious language is not true, nor false but meaningless

Question 4

The Vienna circle

Answer 4

Came up with logical positivism

Question 5

Wittgenstein

Answer 5

Meaningful if it fits your social groups language game.

Question 6

Ayer

Answer 6

verification principal

Strong verification principle (something that can be experienced) and weak verification principle (something that has not been experienced but is probable

Religious language cannot be vertified

Question 7

Flew

Answer 7

PARABLE OF THE GARDENER

“there is a gardener” cannot be falsified making it meaningless

Question 8

Hare

Answer 8

just because a statement is meaningless doesn’t mean it doesn’t tell us about the person

Bliks

parable of the lunatic