bliks (counter to falsification)

against falsification

bliks

HARE

• worldview 

• developed by upbringing, family, friends, etc.

COUNTERARGUMENT TO FLEW’S FALSIFICATION

what parable for bliks

parable of the lunatic

bliks = non-cognitive, unfalsifiable, BUT still meaningful to individual (shape their life)

• lunatic thinks professors want to murder him

  • meaningful = changes his behaviour

• no matter how many nice professors introduced to, won’t change his mind

  • not prepared to accept belief as wrong = shows how meaningful it is to him

FLEW’s counterarguments

• theists see it as fact not ‘personal worldviews’

  • devalues RL

• deceitful to treat RL as ‘blik’

  • tells people how to live their lives

• religious ideas might be fraudulent 

  • silly to base whole life around whim

support bliks

like idea of ‘schema’ in psychology and ‘ideology’ in sociology