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RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE - Coggle Diagram
RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE
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BLIKS [HARE]
- religious statements are not things that can just be shown to be true or false
- instead theyre bliks- part of someones view of the world (non-cognitive & non-falsifiable)
- despite being unfalsifiable, the bliks are still meaningful to the person that holds them
PARABLE OF THE LUNATIC
- A paranoid student thinks university lecturers are trying ti kill him
- you assure him that they are not trying to kill him and provide tons of evidence, yet the student still believes it anyways
- even after speaking with the lecturer who acts totally normal, the student insists he is just pretending to be normal so his plan to murder him isnt revealed
- no amount of evidence or reassurance will convince this student that his blink is false- its unfalsifiable. What the lunatic has is a blik- a view about the world
- there may be many different types of bliks (the lunatics blink is an insane blik)
- most people have sane bliks
- a religious blik is a common and powerful view, where no amount of persuasion form philosophers such as flew, will make believers think differently
STRENGTHS
- His concept of bliks explains why different religions make different factual claims
- the truths of 1 religion may contradict the truth of another, leading to the argument of who's is right or wrong
- Its simpler to accept hares view that all expressions are non-cognitive bliks, that are deeply meaningful to the person who holds them
WEAKNESSES
- Flew argues that most believers dont see their statements as non-cognitive- they are expressing factual truths otherwise they wouldn't bother to make them
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