Twentieth Century Perspectives

Content

• logical positivism

• Wittgenstein’s views on language games and forms of life

• discussion about the factual quality of religious language in the falsification symposium

Key Knowledge

• the impact of the verification principle on the use of religious language, with reference to:

  • Ayer’s approach to verification

• how language games may permit religious language to be deemed meaningful yet not cognitive

• the varying arguments, with their associated parables, put forward in relation to theological language by:

  • Flew, Hare and Mitchell in their contributions to the symposium