Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religious Language
- Antony Flew
- Religious People do not allow their
beliefs to be disproven
- GOD IS OMNIBENEVOLENT despite the evidence of
evil and suffering
- "Death by a thousand qualifications"
- A. J. Ayer
- Verification Principal
- A belief is only meaningful is it can
be empirically verified (synthetic) or
is True by definition (Analytic)
- John Hick
- Statements like "Jesus rose from the dead" are historical and
therefore verifyable
- Eschatological Verification
- Knowledge about God and the metaphysical
are verifyable in principal postmortem
- Faith and Knowledge, 1978
- Keith Ward
- If I were God, I would be able
to verify my own existence
- Basil Mitchel
- People won't allow their beliefs to be altered
because a religious belief is a relaitionship
with God, not an acceptance of fact
- Swinburne
- Toy Sory Analogy
- It cannot be verified that the toys get up and dance
at night
- R. M. Hare
- Blik - Believers have WORLDVIEWS which express deeply
held opinions and are cognitive in that they affect a person
- Wittgenstein
- LANGUAGE Games - A fish cannot talk about things outside of
their pond - it is a different realm of language
- Philosophical Investigations, 1952
- Aquinas
- Against the VIA
NEGATIVA
- Summa Theologica
- Unequivocal Language is wrong as it leads to
anthropomorphisism of God
- Analogical Language - WE experience God through
human qualities as they came from him, burt are not
equivolent
- Peter Cole
- VIA NEGATIVA - By saying what God is not, we can
discover what he is due to the pitfalls of human language
- By denying all description of
God, you gain insight, not
skepticism
- Vienna Circle
- Logical Possivitism
- Influenced by Hume - Hume's fork
of synthetic and analytic
- Braithwaith
- Meaning is through use
of language
- Declaration of believer is knowledge
- Michelles
- You can't abandon belief, even if it is false
- It is up to the individual to
decide when their belief
has been falsified