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religious language

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  1. 1Why would the vienna circle argue that religious language is meaningless
    1. AThere is no way to prove it
    2. BNot everyone can take part
    3. CDifferent religions will have their own kind of anguage
  2. 2Cognitivism claims what about religous statements
    1. Athey can be true or false, statements express propositions and religous language makes claims about the world
    2. Ball language has meaning
    3. Call language is an expression of emotion
  3. 3what is an analytical statement
    1. Aa sentence which is true by definition
    2. Ba sentence which is true through verification
    3. Ca sentence which is untrue
  4. 4what type of statement would this be mr miles has six car
    1. Asynthetic
    2. Banalytical
    3. Cmeaningless
  5. 5AJ ayer believed that there was strong verification which was verified in practice and verified in theory which requires no evidence.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  6. 6Which of these is an advantage for the verification principle
    1. AIt is not just an argument against God as according to the theory atheists and agnostics
    2. BAj Ayer stated that weak verification principle
    3. CScientific laws become meaningless
    4. DSome religous statements might be verifiable in principle, such as biblical events
    5. ESwinburne argued universal statements cannot be verified so meaningless yet we would agree '
  7. 7What did Richard Swinburne argue
    1. AAny language is meaningful
    2. Ball universal statements can't be verified
    3. Call language is meaningless as it is just opinion
  8. 8AJ Ayers version of the verification principle was considered an improvement over the Vienna circle due to the fact that he claimed that we can actually verify through a limited amount of evidence and do not need a physical observation
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  9. 9Hick claimed that in fact religious statements are not meaningless due to what reason
    1. AIt is entierly subjective
    2. Bthere is no way to verify athiesim
    3. Cthese statements could be verified in the after life
  10. 10Why did flew object to religous language
    1. AHe did not believe in God
    2. BHe felt that anything that could be disproved is not valid
    3. CHe felt that scientific terminology was more accurate

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Quiz on religious language, created by Alex Richardson on 04/01/2017.
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