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Challenges from Verification and Falsification
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- 1Who first developed the verification principle?Moritz Schlick of 'The Vienna Circle' (aka the Logical Positivists)
- 2What parts of religious language did they argue as meaningless?All claims and talk of the supernatural and metaphysical since we can not empirically prove any of it.
- 3What are the two types of meaningful language to the logical positivists?- Synthetic propositions (dependent on empirical evidence)
- Analytic propositions (true by definition eg bachelors are unmarried men) - 4Who further developed his own version of the verification principle?AJ Ayer
- 5Define 'cognitive' beliefs/statements.Beliefs/statements that can be proven true or false by empirical evidence.
- 6What did Ayer argue about religious language?It is literally meaningless; it can't be verified in practice or principle
- - 7What did AJ ayer controversially state about atheistic and agnostic language?That they too are meaningless. 'God does not exist' cannot be proven empirically either.
- 8Who challenged religious language from falsification?Karl Popper and Anthony Flew
- 9What does the principle of falsification state you have to do in order to make a factual cognitive claim?Be able to specify what could falsify your claim.
- 10Specify the difference between the verification principle and the falsification principleVerification principle - you have to be able to prove a claim empirically or by definition.
Falsification principle - you have to be able to state what would disprove whatever it is you're proposing. - 11Who originally made the 'Parable of the Gardener'?John Wisdom
- 12What did the parable of the gardener illustrate?Cognitive religious believers who refuse to accept anything that could falsify their cognitive beliefs
- 13What is the significance of the Parable of the gardener to these theories?It uses falsificationist thinking to religious statements.
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- A level Philosophy and Ethics (Religious Language) Flashcards on Challenges from Verification and Falsification, created by Jack Lynch on 29/12/2019.
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