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Religious Language: 20th-centry Perspectives - Verification and Meaning -…
Religious Language: 20th-centry Perspectives - Verification and Meaning
Verification Principle - sentence not tautology or verification meaningless
Logical Positivism
Over-simplifies varieties of language use
Foundationalist in leaving its own presuppositions unchallenged
Philosophical approach adopted by the Vienna Circle, which avoided metaphysics as meaningless and believed the task of the philosopher was the logical analysis of sentences, separating the meaningful from the meaningless
Verification meaningless by its own rules
Weak Form
must be able to state what would make it possible
Accepted by Ayer as reasonable
Strong Form
must be conclusively verifiable
Rejected by Ayer and others as impossible
Metaphysics meaningless
Is it creating an alternative metaphysic?
Religious assertions meaningless
Ayer: Theism, Atheism, Agnosticism all meaningless
Verification Theory
Tautologies
A sentence in which a definition of the subject necessarily contains the meaning of the predicate. It is true by definition but contains no factual information.
'A square has four sides'
is an obvious example, because part of the definition of
'square'
is
'having four sides'