WorksheetsReligious Language
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
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
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
D. Z. Phillips presented a..
Theory that supports Wittgenstein
Cognitive analysis of Wittgenstein
Non-cognitive analysis of Wittgenstein
Criticism of Wittgenstein
What is the term used to describe 'words used with identical meaning in different sentences'?
Cognitive
Non-cognitive
Univocal
Equivocal
Who are the analogy of attribution and analogy of proportion associated with?
Aristotle
Ayer
Aquinas
Emmett
Which of these describes when strong verification principle is fulfilled?
Conclusive empirical evidence
Tautology
Verified by sense experience
Eschatological verification
For Wittgenstein, language games are isolated from each other which is why we can categorise language.
True
False
The apophatic way is...
Via negativa
Via positiva
