3b Analyse the credibility of the view that 'The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability'. (20)
3b Analyse the the ways in which EITHER verification OR falsification can be used to discredit the meaningfulness of religious language . (20)
3b Analyse the implications for Logical Positivism of the claim that the 'People began to realise that this glittering new scapel was, in one operation after another killing the patient.' (20)
3b Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the challenge to religious language from the verification debate. (20) 2019 Q
3b Analyse the strengths of claim 'lack of verification renders religious Language meaningless. (20)
3b Analyse the strengths and weakness of the claim 'Hume's Fork' renders religious Language meaningless. (20)
3b Analyse the strengths and weakness of the criticism that religious language fails as God cannot be verified in principle. (20)
3b Analyse the significance of the claim 'the sentence "There exists a transcendent god" has no literal significance. ' as there is no way to verify it in principle. (20)
2 Assess the claim Wisdom's parable of the gardener conclusively shows the believers definitions of God 'die the death of a thousand qualifications' so fails to meet the falsification criterion of meaning. (12)
3b) Analayse the implications for religius langauge of the claim 'bliks are beliefs that are not open to rational discussion or refutation. They are based on personal commitments'. (20)
3b Analyse the implications of Wards claim God’s existence can, in principle, be verified since God himself can verify his own existence. (20)
3b Analyse the view that Ayers weak verification fails in principle to show that God and religious language is meaningless. (20)
3b Analyse the extent to which a theist can claim just because we do not necessarily know whether a given statement about God is true or false does not mean there is no truth to be known. (12)
3b Analyse the view that Hicks use of eschatological verification is the best defence of religious language against verificationism. (20)
3b Analyse the significance of the Hicks parable of celestial city for religious language. (12)
3b Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the critique of religious language from the falsification principle.(20)
3b Analyse the relevance of the claim 'religious believers really allow nothing to count against their claims.' (20)
3b Analyse the strenghs and weakness of Flews statement that If a statement cannot be falsified, it is not a genuine statement about the world. It is, in effect, a non-statement'. (20)
3b Analyse the view that Basil Mitchell’s response to Flew’s use of the Parable of the Gardener defends successfully a realist view of God and religious language. (20)
3b Analyse the distinctive ideas contained in R M Hare’s and Basil Mitchell’s responses to Flew’s use of the Parable of the Gardener. (20)
3b Analyse which was the most convincing point of view in the falsification symposium (20)