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The Verification Principle
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- 1Verification PrincipleContent:
- logical positivism - A.J AYER
- Strong and weak verification
- Hick's eschatological verification
- Strengths and weaknesses - 2Early Wittgenstein influencein Tractatus - "whereof which one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"
if you cannot say anything meaningful about God, then don't say it at all - 3What is the Vienna Circle?The group comprised of the logical positivist, in the 1920s
They believe that a statement is only meaningful if it can be verified empirically or tautologically - 4A.J AyerLanguage, Truth, and Logic - “The criteria used to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is that criteria of verifiability”
Religious language cannot be verified, analytically or synthetically - therefore is meaningless - 5BRUMMER's challengeit is a fallacy in understanding the idea that Ayer assumes only science can tell us things about the world
it does not consider abstract ideas such as art, music and religious language to be meaningful - 6Swinburne's Criticismit is not meaningless
example statement - "all ravens are black"
applying VP, we would have to empirically observe all Ravens in existence to verify that they are in fact 'all black'
another example - "all humans are mortal" - impossible to verify
or "I love you" how can that be verified? can we say that it is meaningless? - 7Strong VerificationA statement that can be verified tautologically and empirically
- 8Weak VerificationObservations at the time count to make the statement verifiable
For example, the statement ‘there are mountains on the other side of the moon’ – we may not be able to go and verify it ourselves, but we know the method of verifying it. Can test it in principle - 9StrengthAYER softens the demand for absolute verification
A statement may not be completely provable, but can be accepted if it could be shown beyond reasonable doubt - 10Weaknesses - is the Vienna Circle too rigid?too rigid and too absolute
seems absurd that claims about Julius Caesar coming to Britain might be classed as meaningless. - 11Weaknesses - Some Religous statements can be verifiedAyer is wrong to rule out all religious statements
SWINBURNE has noted that some religious claims can be verified using weak verification - such as the resurrection of Christ - 12Weaknesses - Can VP be verified?Democritus’ ideas of Peritrope
Which means reversal – you could use this to argue that the verification principle is typical of this
The principle itself, as it is not subject to the criterion of verifiability (statement neither analytical nor synthetic) is therefore meaningless. - 13Hick and Eschatological verificationJohn Hick argued that it can be verified later in the future. Such as statements about the afterlife.
The parable of the Celestial City
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