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Philosophy of Religion (Units 2 and 5)
Quick questions on Religious language: verification, falsification, analogy and symbol - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies
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The deepest tension in this topic is between rescuing religious language from the charge of meaninglessness and preserving its claim to be true. The verification and falsification challenges press a cognitive standard: to be meaningful, "God loves us" must make a fact-claim that observation could in principle bear on. Some defences meet this standard directly: Mitchell insists religious statements are genuine assertions, and Hick's eschatological verification holds they will be confirmed after death, keeping them cognitive.
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State Ayer's verification principle. [2 marks]
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What did Flew mean by "death by a thousand qualifications"? [2 marks]
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Evaluate the view that religious language is meaningful. [20 marks]
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