Why would the vienna circle argue that religious language is meaningless
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There is no way to prove it
Not everyone can take part
Different religions will have their own kind of anguage
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Cognitivism claims what about religous statements
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they can be true or false, statements express propositions and religous language makes claims about the world
all language has meaning
all language is an expression of emotion
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what is an analytical statement
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a sentence which is true by definition
a sentence which is true through verification
a sentence which is untrue
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what type of statement would this be mr miles has six car
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synthetic
analytical
meaningless
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AJ ayer believed that there was strong verification which was verified in practice and verified in theory which requires no evidence.
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True
False
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Which of these is an advantage for the verification principle
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It is not just an argument against God as according to the theory atheists and agnostics
Aj Ayer stated that weak verification principle
Scientific laws become meaningless
Some religous statements might be verifiable in principle, such as biblical events
Swinburne argued universal statements cannot be verified so meaningless yet we would agree '
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What did Richard Swinburne argue
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Any language is meaningful
all universal statements can't be verified
all language is meaningless as it is just opinion
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AJ 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
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True
False
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Hick claimed that in fact religious statements are not meaningless due to what reason
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It is entierly subjective
there is no way to verify athiesim
these statements could be verified in the after life
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Why did flew object to religous language
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He did not believe in God
He felt that anything that could be disproved is not valid
He felt that scientific terminology was more accurate
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Mitchell argued that in fact Flew was correct
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True
False
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What is the Via Negitiva
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The idea that God should never be spoken about negatively
the theory we can only describe God in a negative way
The idea God can be described in both a negative and positive way
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Some of the problems with religious language are that God is a [blank_start]abstract property[blank_end]. He also does not exist in [blank_start]time[blank_end] or [blank_start]space[blank_end].
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space
time
abstract property
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What two things is religious language considered to be
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Imposible to prove or disprove
disregarding of science
inconsistent
not open to universal experience
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Why is religious language seen as being incompatible with our understanding of the world
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They describe concepts that exist separate from our world.
They are unclear on their aims
It often contradicts empirical evidence eg ressurection of jesus no human has ever been resurrected