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WorksheetsReligious Language - VP, FP, Eschatological and bliks
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
There are two categories that religious language can be put into: (select multiple options then press 'submit')
Cognitive
Non-cognitive
Analytic
Synthetic
Cognitive language...
Makes factual assertions, or claims that can be proved true or false
Is any language that requires a person to cognitively think about it
Presents symbols, metaphors, ethical statements, emotion etc.
Can only be verified in practice
Non-cognitive language
Makes factual assertions, or claims that can be proved true or false
Is any language that requires a person to cognitively think about it
Presents symbols, metaphors, ethical statements, emotion etc.
Is any language that is unverifiable and meaningless
The verification principle was presented by...
Ayer
Flew
Hick
Hume
Ayer argued...
Religious language was meaningless in every way
Religious language is untrue because it cannot be verified
Religious language is untrue because God is physical
Religious language is meaningless unless you're talking from an atheist perspective
There are two types of verification:
in practice
in principle
in science
in hypothesis
Religious language is meaningless because God is...
Metaphysical
Megaphysical
Physical
Natural
The falsification principle was presented by...
Flew
Ayer
Hick
Hume
Flew argued that...
Religious language is meaningless because there is no evidence against it.
Religious language is all completely meaningless.
Religious language is meaningless when people don't have a reason not to believe in it
Religious language is meaningless because there is so much evidence against God.
Flew explained his argument by using...
A parody
The Parable of the Gardener
The Parable of the Celestial City
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
The Parable of the Gardener shows that...
"God dies the death of a thousand qualifications."
"God dies the death of a thousand qualities."
"God dies the death of falsification."
"God dies the death of verification."
Eschatological Verification was presented by...
Hick
Hume
Wittgenstein
Hare
Eschatological means...
Life after death/end of the world
In the future
In heaven
Religious language
Hick's Eschatological Language shows that religious language can still be...
Cognitive
Non-cognitive
For Hick, eschatological verification was an extension of...
verification in practice
verification in principle
falsification in practice
falsification in principle
For Hick, all religious language is meaningful because...
Everything is personal interpretation, so there is no absolute 'truth'
We will verify it after we have died
We make meaning for ourselves
God is physical and therefore verifiable
Bliks was developed by...
Hare
Hume
Wittgenstein
Aquinas
A Blik is...
our worldview
our cognitive understanding of the world
our sense experiences (empirical data)
the same for everyone
A Blik makes religious language meaningful because...
it is irrational but affects how we act
it shows that we can try to prove God using different evidence
it shows it can be falsified
each Blik is in a different game
Hare demonstrated his point by using...
a parody
The Parable of the Talents
The Parable of the Lunatic
The Parable of the Invisible Gardener
