Religious Language as Cognitive, but Meaningless Evaluation Flashcards
(ayer) The principle is far too strong since it not only outlaws religious language from being meaningful but also makes a lot of _ topics meaningless
normal
(ayer) the verification principle makes _ language meaningless, rendering most language, poetry and art nonsense, which suggests Ayer’s notion of meaning is very different to our one in every day life
metaphorical
(ayer) the verification principle would kill all human creativity if the logical positivists had their way, much like _ in the novel 1984.
newspeak
(ayer) Sutherland states it is “conceptually restrictive and intellectually _ in its character”
imperialistic
(ayer) the principle of verification itself is meaningless according to its own _, as it itself is not verifiable in anyway
criteria
(Hick) Hick’s thought experiments aren’t as solid as he believes, each scenario still produces a _ so it is not really the same person no matter what we think
duplicate
(Hick) Hick’s thought experiments are rational rather than empirical, but he is still drawing _ based on the empirical world
conclusions
(Hick) Hick’s _ verification does not make it meaningful in this reality as even if it can be proven, it is in a different reality to ours so it does not matter her
eschatological
(Hick) It can be stated that God is beyond our _ and so we cannot ever verify him even after death
comprehension
(Flew) if a statement cannot be falsified, surely this would show that the argument is more _? Not allowing any evidence to count against it is only foolish if your claim is not solid, but if it is perfectly accurate and nothing falsifies it, then Flew would appear to disregard it
valid
(Flew) Some statements which seem obvious, cannot be verified via falisification, e.g All men are _, we cannot be sure this is wrong as even an immortal man might one day die if he existed.
mortal
(Flew) Some statements which seem obvious, cannot be verified via falisification, e.g All men are _, we cannot be sure this is wrong as even an immortal man might one day die if he existed.
mortal
(Flew) we cannot falsify _ statements, we cannot disprove that I believe the Mona Lisa is beautiful, and with the falsification principle all opinions would be invalid
subjective
(Flew) Hare gives the parable of the _, where he is convinced his teachers are out to kill him and cannot be convinced otherwise, despite evidence suggesting his teachers are kind it cannot be falsified as you cannot be sure that a teacher will not one day kill him
lunatic
(Flew) Hare invented the word _ to refer to thoughts and principles that we refuse to give up which helps us interpret our whole lives. Whilst we may never be prepared to give it up, the fundamental importance of our beliefs make it meaningful to us.
blik
