![]() ![]() But Flew recently changed his mind… Excerpted from Geisler and Feinberg’s Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective (Baker, 1980).Phillipson, Garry (2020) Astrology and Truth - A Context in Contemporary Epistemology.pdfĪvailable under License Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives.Flew used it to challenge a belief in God.Any statement or proposition is meaningless unless it is subject to falsification (at least in principle).Self-refuting Excerpted from Geisler and Feinberg’s Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective (Baker, 1980).All other statements (ethical, theological, metaphysical) are nonsense or meaningless. For a statement to be meaningful (true) it must be either 1) purely definitional or else 2) verifiable by onor of more of the five senses.Excerpted from Geisler and Feinberg’s Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective (Baker, 1980). Tarski-truth is a property of sentences- in a particular language…and involves a relationship (correspondence) between a sentence and reality.When a belief is false, that which is believed is not a fact.When a belief is true, that which is believed is a fact.The proposition is the bearer of truth or falsity. Something is apprehended (in understanding a sentence) by us that is more than the mere sentence.Moore-a proposition is identified with the meaning of an indicative sentence. ![]()
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