Quotes (Theme 3)

Question 1

What quotes support Logical positivism?

Answer 1

• ‘To one belong statements as they are made by empirical science; their meaning can be determined by logical analysis or, more precisely, through reeducation to the simplest statements about the empirically given. The other statements, to which belong those cited above, reveal themselves as empty of meaning if one takes them in the way that metaphysics intend’

Question 2

What quotes supported verification?

Answer 2

• ‘We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express’
• ‘A further distinction which we must make is the distinction between the ‘strong’ and the ‘weak; sense of the term verifiable. A proposition is said to verifiable, in the strongest sense in the term if, and only if, its truth could be conclusively established in experience. But it is verifiable, in the weakest sense, if it is possible for experience to render it probable’

Question 3

What quotes support falsification?

Answer 3

• ‘Just how does what you call and invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary girder or even from no Gardner at all’

Question 4

What quotes support univocally?

Answer 4

• “For all things are predicated of God essentially. For God is called being as being entity itself, and He is called good as being goodness itself. But in other beings predications are made by participation, as Socrates is said to be a man, not because he is humanity itself, but because he possesses humanity. It is impossible therefore, that anything be predicated univocally of God and other things”

Question 5

What quotes support equivocally?

Answer 5

• “But, as it clear from what we have said, there is a certain mode of likeness of things to God. It remains, then, that names are not said of God in a purely equivocal way, we cannot from one of them be led to the knowledge of another; for the knowledge of things does not depend on words, but on the meaning of names”

Question 6

What quotes support the analogy of attribution?

Answer 6

• “because God is good, therefore we exist, and in as much as we exist we are good”