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The Verification Principle
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- 1Which group in the 1920s inspired the verification principle?The Vienna Circle
- 2What kind of people were the Vienna Circle?logical positivists
- 3Which philosopher did the Vienna Circle surround?Moritz Schlick
- 4What was the central proposition of the logical positivists?something can only have meaning if it can be verified empirically
- 5WHat did the logical positivists come up with?verification principle
- 6What is the verification principle?a statement is only meaningful if it can be verified by an actual experience or is a tautology
- 7What is a tautology?a logical statement that we can know to be true by definition
- 8What classifies as a meaningful statement for a follower of the verification principle?a statement is only meaningful if it can be analytically or synthetically verifiable
- 9What is an analytic statement?a statement that is true by definition, tends to be logic/math, often called a tautology
e.g. bachelors are unmarried men - 10What is a synthetic statement?statements that can be verified by testing or using experience, tend to be scientific, e.g. its raining
some synthetic statements are more verifiable than others - 11WHat is a meaningless statement?neither analytic nor synthetic
e.g. he is a good person, no way of testing what good means.
logical positivists say all ethical metaphysical religious statements are meaningless - 12Who was A J Ayer and what did he do?a British philosopher who introduced logical positivism in the UK
- 13What two major contributions to logical positivism?1. a distinction between verification in principle and in practice e.g. even though we cannot verifiy that all metals explained when heated but we know the parameters for testing it so still meaningful
2. distinction between weak and strong verification - 14What does Ayer argue about sentenced about God?they are meaningless, both denying and accepting God is meaningless
- 15How does Ayer classify if statements are meaningful?1. if they are analytic (a priori)
2. if they are synthetic (a posteriori) - 16What is weak verification?something can be verified if you can state the observations would be needed to verify the statement. e.g. mountains on the far side of the moon (1935 when could not see far side). Therefore statement is meaningful
- 17What is strong verification?points out strong verification is impossible, can never conclusively make any statement about the world as statements can be mistaken. We cannot get out of our minds to check our perception is correct
- 18What are the strengths of the verification principle?saves wasted time discussing God,
supports design argument for God's existence as based on a posteriori experience,
supports the claim of an afterlife and religious experience - 19What can be said to criticise the VP based on its evidence?there is no evidence to support the principle, so it doesn't meet its own criteria
- 20What can be said about this and metaphysical terms?there are many terms that are metaphysical (love) which do not have meaning for the users and the effects of these metaphysical terms can be seen through their actions
- 21What does Vardy say about this?argues the fact you cant verify it doesn't mean its meaningless
- 22What can be said about this and the modern day science?not consistent with modern science as many things such as atoms or forces are not verifiable
- 23What does Keith Ward say about the verification principle?reasoned that Gods existence can be verified since God himself can verify his own existence
- 24What can be said about weak verification?technically you can verify anything
- 25What does Richard Holder say about the verification principle?Gives example of polar bears, VP would state all polar bears are white, therefore non white objects cannot be polar bears. V logic suggests that a brown chimpanzee proves all polar bears are white
- 26What does Karl Popper say about the verification principle?simply argues we cannot scientifically verify everything
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