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Religious Language, Only places meaning on subjects that meet a scientific…
Religious Language
Introduction to RL
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Talking about the concept of God, in a way understand it when we are talking about it to each other e.g. when singing hymns or prayers
How can we discuss God or the problem of evil without reference to him ( can't= need to find a way of referencing him)
Anthony flew
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Pig=Certain extent=Ant= Can it be wise= tricky as ants are apart of a hive mind (in itself not really an individual)
As we go down the scale, applying the word wise in the same context becomes difficult= Applying the same word doesn't always work
If we go the other way towards God, then wise would mean something different, bc God us meant to be omniscient= he already knows best there's no working it out as it is in human
Flew states ' apply them( terminology=wise)to something which is not an animal at all(God).. result complete… cutting of lines of communication
Issue with religious language, is that one term means something completely different when applied to God
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With God we've got this terminology that doesn't make sense= does he want to spend time with you and chat= no not really= that's not what we mean by God's Love= means completely different thing, but is the same word
A pig is like a dog it want to be your friend , it cant talk with you, but when your their, may recognize you= with ants love is meaningless
Transition from talking about things that we normally do, to talking about is impossible to breach the gap with
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Verification principle
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Meaningful= synthetic- empirically verifiable = Analytic- True by definition = triangle has three sides/ its raining OUTSIDE
Any religious statement or any statement about God is a metaphysical statement = meaningless as they can't be empirically verified- cannot show that that the statement is true or false= The statement is neither true or false= adds nothing to our lives= fails the verification principle=- Therefore Religious language has no meaning
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e.g. an alien sleeping on the dark side of the moon= the criteria verifiability allows for statements that we know how to verify , even though we can't verify it at this precise moment= I would need to take a rocket to the moon to see if the alien is sleeping there= so it is not a meaningless statement
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Verification in principle means we know how in principle a statement can be verified for example ' there is a Bag on venus' you would have to take a rocket to see it, however you would burn alive before= therefore in theory we know how to verify it one day
Verification in practice means direct sense experience= e.g. ' there is a dog next door' is meaningful as this statement can be checked by going next door
Meaningful statement have to say something about the experience of the world and how it is= any statement that is not factually significant= he called a 'pseudo-proposition'
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Only places meaning on subjects that meet a scientific standard= this is not self evident= not all statements must be empirically verified or falsified for them to have meaning= this only good of scientific statements= more type of statements than scientific ones
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