Religious Language 20th Century

Why did they call themselves the Logical Positivists?

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For a verificationist, statements are meaningful if fall into which two categories?

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Why are religious statements meaningless?

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Who presents the argument that God talk is eschatological verifiable?

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What example does Swinburne give to demonstrate that not all statements can be proved true or false yet they are still meaningful?

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What examples does Flew give to demonstrate that people go on believing in God and no experience can falsify this belief (prove it wrong)?

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The argument that their belief in God dies a ‘death by a thousand qualifications’ is used to support which argument?

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Who coined the term ‘blik’ (expression of a personal interpretation of the world)?

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Mitchell argues that religious believers have to take care not to create a ‘vacuous formulae which experience makes no difference.’ What does this mean?

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What example did Wittgenstein give to demonstrate Language Games?

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What does Lebensform’ mean?

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Which of these books was written by Wittgenstein?

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Who presents a non-cognitive approach to Falsification?

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In the parable of the partisan who is the stranger?

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Who supports Language Games by arguing that many of the terms only make sense when participating in that game?

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Religious Language 20th Century

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