Religous language 20th century

Analytic statements

Statements true by definition

What makes statements meaningful according to logical postivists

When there analytic or a synthetic state tan that can be empirically verifiable

aims of Vienna circle

Move philosophy towards science using empiracle evidence

Ayers Verification principle

For something to be meaningful it must be verifiable in practice or principle

Strong verification

Something that can be verified through sense and observation

Weak verification

Something can could probably be verified

Ayer second version of verification

directly and indirectly

Cognitive

Can be known

Non cognitive

cant be known

Falsification principle

for something to be meaningful it must be falsifiable

Parable Flew uses

Parable of the gardener

Hare response to falsificationism

Bliks - unflasiable way of seeing world but hold meaning to the individual

RL is non cognitive still holds meaning even though it isn’t falsifiable

Parable Hare uses

University Don

Mitchell criticism of Flew

RL is cognitive faith is meaningful, Partisan and stranger

Religion shouldn’t be equivocal to science

Wittgenstein view on religous language

meaningful but non - cognitive

Language games

language is meaningful within the language game it participates in

Flew quote

“God dies the death of 1000 qualifications”