1.5 Twentieth-century perspectives and philosophical comparisons QUOTES Flashcards
10 words, Karl Popper
“Falsification is demarcating scientific statements from other kinds of statements.”
37 words, Anthony Flew
“If relentlessly pursued, the theologian will have to resort to avoiding action of qualification. And there lies that death by a thousand qualifications, which would, I agree, constitute a failure in faith as well as in logic.”
17 words, Anthony Flew
“Believers will allow nothing to falsify their belief claims. Therefore, God-Talk is meaningless as it is unfalsifiable.”
20 words, John Wisdom
“The nature of God is totally outside of our traditional methods of scientific enquiry - as a result is God-Talk meaningless?”
32 words, John Hick
“At the end of the day, if God does exist, then the verification of his existence is verifiable in principle, but if God does not exist, then his existence is not falsifiable.”
17 words, R. M. Hare
“A Blik is a claim about the world that is not falsifiable nor can it be tested.”
55 words, Normal Malcolm
“The obsessive concern with the proofs of the existence of God reveals the assumption that in order for religious belief to be intellectually respectable it ought to have a rational justification. That is the misunderstanding. It is like the idea that we are not justified in relying on memory until memory has been proved reliable.”
36 words, Basil Mitchell
“Theists do not accept evidence that counts against their beliefs. Believers have to take care that religious beliefs are not just ‘vacuous formulae in which experience makes no difference and which makes no difference to life’.”
