Language, Truth and Logic

Language, Truth and Logic

1. Verification Principle

   • Can the knowlege be verified by empirical data?
     • Note that the question does not have to be verified, just able to be verified in principle
   • Is the knowlege a Tautology? (a Priori Analytic, true by definition)
   • If it is neither, it is not a genuine question

2. Ethics

   • Contains Metaphysics, but is not all metaphysics
   • Four classes of propositions about ethics
     • Definitions of ethical terms
       • Is the domain of ethical philosophy
     • Description of phenomena and their causes
       • Domain of Psychology or Sociology
     • Exhortations to moral value
       • Not propositions and so do not belong to either philosophy or science
     • Actual ethical judgements
       • Do not belong to Philosophy (but does not mean they are not useful)

3. Theology

   • God cannot be proven through a Priori means (the only things that can be linked to a priori reasoning are Tautologies)
   • God cannot be proven through empirical means
   • God cannot be said to exist, but he cannot be said not to exist either. The question is meaningless.

4. Aethetics

   • Shows emotion, not facts

5. Evaluation (AO3)

   • Does make a lot of sense
   • Does not say that the ideas do not have use or are false, but are just meaningless and so are not relevant to Philosophy