The Verification Principle

The Vienna Circle

Logical Positivism

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (1921)

The picture theory of language

AJ Ayer (1910-89)

Language Truth and Logic (1936)

An analytic statement

An empirically testable statement

Karl Popper (1902-94)

Eschatological verification

The Falsification Principle

‘Parable of the Gardener’

Anthony Flew

RM Hare (1919-2002)

A blik

Univocally/ Equivocally

Analogy upwards/downwards

Analogy of Proportion

Analogy of Attribution

Language Games

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Noncognitivism

The Via Negativa

Apophatic theology

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Cataphatic theology

The Via Positiva

-RB Braithwaite
-JH Randall
-DZ Phillips

Myth

Rudolph Bultmann
(1884-76)

Symbol

Paul Tillich (1886-65)