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Mind Map by A.D.Graham, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by A.D.Graham
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Religious language
- the problems with religious language
- Can theists talk meaningfully about God?
- yes
- anallogy
- Religious language is anallogous to what God is like
- Anallogy of
attribution
- 'the urine is good, the bull is good'
- this limits what can be said about God
- this limits what can be said about God
- 'the urine is good, the bull is good'
- Anallogy of
proportion
- God is good like human good but upscaled
- God is good like human good but upscaled
- Anallogy of
imitation
- reliant on the idea that things about God can be inferred from his creation
- reliant on the idea that things about God can be inferred from his creation
- Anallogy of
attribution
- Religious language is anallogous to what God is like
- symbol
- Talk of God points to what God is like
- symbols and signs
- signs point to something
- symbols partake in that to which they point
- signs point to something
- key philosopher : paul Tillich
- symbols and signs
- Talk of God points to what God is like
- Models
- Ramsey
- God is understandable through models
- Human love is a model for divine love
- God is understandable through models
- Ramsey
- via negativa
- nothing positive can be said about God
- God cannot be described in everyday terms
- only valid things that can be said about God is what he is not
- only valid things that can be said about God is what he is not
- God cannot be described in everyday terms
- nothing positive can be said about God
- myth
- The Bible is non-propositional
- communicates stories for the community of the time
- stories reveal truths about God
- stories reveal truths about God
- communicates stories for the community of the time
- The Bible is non-propositional
- Wittgenstein
- picture theory
- language corresponds to something
- language corresponds to something
- Language games
- language is contextually meaningfull
- language is contextually meaningfull
- picture theory
- anallogy
- No
- Falsification
- Karl popper
- The Falsification principle holds that the scientific merit
of a statement lies in its ‘falsifiabiltiy, or refutability or
testability.’
- The Falsification principle holds that the scientific merit
of a statement lies in its ‘falsifiabiltiy, or refutability or
testability.’
- Anthony Flew
- The Gardeners
- religious believers refuse to allow there beliefs to be falsified
- God dies the death of a thousand qualifications
- 1. shows religious belief to be irrational
- 2. shows beliefs arent in touch with
the rational world
- Religious belief is falsifiable e.g Wiles and miracles
- Flews view is all or nothing
- Flews view is all or nothing
- 1. shows religious belief to be irrational
- God dies the death of a thousand qualifications
- religious believers refuse to allow there beliefs to be falsified
- The Gardeners
- Basil Mitchell
- The partisan and the stranger
- The partisan and the stranger
- R.M Hare
- bliks
- bliks
- Karl popper
- Verification
- Vienna circle
- logical posivitism
- logical posivitism
- Strong verification
- Anything that is describable in practice
- far to restrictive of what can be said.
- Statements such as 'The battle of hastings was in 1066 irrelevant'
- Statements such as 'The battle of hastings was in 1066 irrelevant'
- far to restrictive of what can be said.
- Anything that is describable in practice
- Weak Verification
- Waissman described this as
anything that is verifiable in principle
- also links to ayer
- Waissman described this as
anything that is verifiable in principle
- Verification prevents meaningless statements being made and
reduces knowledge to objective truths
- the idea that knowledge should be verifiable is not itself verifiable
- Hick suggests god uverifiable, eschatalogically
- Religious experience is evidence empirical evidence of Gods existence
- A statement can be meaningful according to Swinburne, without being
verifiable. he gives the example of toys in a toy box coming out at
night
- schrodingers cat is another example of this
- schrodingers cat is another example of this
- Vienna circle
- Falsification
- yes
- Can theists talk meaningfully about God?
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