Religious Language - Symposium Flashcards
What is F.S in response to?
(Who responded to whom and what is the theory itself)
Basil Mitchell’s response to Flew’s challenge to religious language.
Flew previously set out the Falsification Principle and applied it to religion, challenging other philosophers to explain what would count for them as evidence against the love/existence of God
What Parable does Mitchell respond with?
What does he admit?
What is his overall argument (specifically for religious believers?)
Admits the problem of unfalsifiable religious language
Responds with his Parable of the Partisan.
Argues religious believers do regard their beliefs as falsifiable and wrestle with the difficulty of maintaining them despite of contradictory evidence, but that religious faith involves a commitment to trust in the existence of God even if there is a certain amount of contradictory evidence.
