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Ayer's Verificationism
- Verifyability in principle
- "There is life on Mars"
- Verifiable in PRINCIPLE, but
we don't have the technology to
find out in PRACTICE.
- Verifiable in PRINCIPLE, but
we don't have the technology to
find out in PRACTICE.
- "There is life on Mars"
- Practical verification
- Can be tested in reality
- Can be tested in reality
- Strong verification
- Observation and
experience...conclusively
verified.
- Observation and
experience...conclusively
verified.
- Weak Verification
- Observation and
experience...probable
- "All human beings are mortal"
- We would need to kill
every human being who
lives and will live.
- This is impossible,
but we accept it as
fact.
- This is impossible,
but we accept it as
fact.
- We would need to kill
every human being who
lives and will live.
- Observation and
experience...probable
- Language is only
meaningful if it can be
verified by sense
observation.
- Ayer's Second Edition
- The distinction
between strong and
weak is not a real
distinction
- Rejects putative
(assuming)
statements
- Language is only
meaningful if it is
analytic or empirically
verifiable.
- Weak verification
allows meaning to
everything and is
therefore too liberal.
- Single experiences
- An experience, while
it may not be
describable, is
verified by it's
occurrence.
- An experience, while
it may not be
describable, is
verified by it's
occurrence.
- Directly verifiable statements
- A statement that is
verifiable by
observation
- A statement that is
verifiable by
observation
- Indirectly verifiable statements
- The statement cannot
be verified by
observation, but by
supporting statements
which can
- The statement cannot
be verified by
observation, but by
supporting statements
which can
- Criticisms of
Verificationism
- Verificationism is not verifiable
- God-talk is eschatologically verifiable
Nota:
- John Hick
- Religion is verifiable in principle, so it meets the conditions of verification.
- (Verifiable in principle but not falsifiable)
- Strong verification excludes many
areas of knowledge
- (There is no sense
observation available for
historical facts)
- Swinburne: It excludes
universal statements
like 'water boils at 100
degrees"
- (There is no sense
observation available for
historical facts)
- What counts as evidence, exactly?
- Swinburne: There are many
areas of debate where getting
people to agree on what counts
as evidence would be the issue.
- Swinburne: There are many
areas of debate where getting
people to agree on what counts
as evidence would be the issue.
- Statements can be meaningful and unverifiable
- Swinburne: Toys in a cupboard.
Nota:
- The toys only come out at night. Meaningful but unverifiable.
- Schrodinger's cat
Nota:
- A radioactive particle could kill the cat at any time. If you open the box you could trigger it. You can't verify if the cat is dead or alive
- Swinburne: Toys in a cupboard.
- Verificationism is not verifiable
- The distinction
between strong and
weak is not a real
distinction
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