
Microsoft Word - Verificationismx
... larger number of throws. And this is always true, no matter how many times you roll the die. So a falsification principle that requires a meaningful statement to entail some decisive, refuting empirical experience is unacceptable. Many meaningful statements do not clearly entail an observation with ...
... larger number of throws. And this is always true, no matter how many times you roll the die. So a falsification principle that requires a meaningful statement to entail some decisive, refuting empirical experience is unacceptable. Many meaningful statements do not clearly entail an observation with ...
YESHIVAT HAR ETZION
... suggest that there are two types of metaphor. One type of metaphor is the intentional use of a word in order to evoke associations from another area and apply them to the area under discussion. For example, one might say, in reference to a politician, "So-And-So is a real snake." We describe a parti ...
... suggest that there are two types of metaphor. One type of metaphor is the intentional use of a word in order to evoke associations from another area and apply them to the area under discussion. For example, one might say, in reference to a politician, "So-And-So is a real snake." We describe a parti ...
19 Sep 2010
... laundry list of beliefs. The Bible, for example, makes an enormous number of claims. Nobody could rationally agree with all of them. I prefer not to have such a laundry list of unexamined beliefs. In fact, I'd prefer to have no "beliefs" but to have only "conclusions" based on experience and reason. ...
... laundry list of beliefs. The Bible, for example, makes an enormous number of claims. Nobody could rationally agree with all of them. I prefer not to have such a laundry list of unexamined beliefs. In fact, I'd prefer to have no "beliefs" but to have only "conclusions" based on experience and reason. ...
Languagegames
... In reply to this challenge, logical positivists point out that the verification principle is not making a factual claim but simply a recommendation for the way in which words should be understood, however, if logical positivists maintain that that its recommendation is correct with no need for an e ...
... In reply to this challenge, logical positivists point out that the verification principle is not making a factual claim but simply a recommendation for the way in which words should be understood, however, if logical positivists maintain that that its recommendation is correct with no need for an e ...
religious language
... In this topic we look at the nature of religious language to determine whether any of the problems we have encountered so far can be unravelled by looking more closely at the statements we use to discuss them. We deal with questions like: What are we doing when we are talking about God? Are we s ...
... In this topic we look at the nature of religious language to determine whether any of the problems we have encountered so far can be unravelled by looking more closely at the statements we use to discuss them. We deal with questions like: What are we doing when we are talking about God? Are we s ...
Ethical and Religious Language
... religious language that don’t apply to ethical language, such as the via negativa, Aquinas’ idea of analogical language, and recent theologians’ views on symbolic language. The most important area of overlap, which will we look at, concerns questions about the meaningfulness and truth of moral and r ...
... religious language that don’t apply to ethical language, such as the via negativa, Aquinas’ idea of analogical language, and recent theologians’ views on symbolic language. The most important area of overlap, which will we look at, concerns questions about the meaningfulness and truth of moral and r ...