Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.1: Language, Truth and Logic — Ayer Questions
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Fill the gap with one word: a sentence that passes neither door is, for Ayer, literally ______ — not false.
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A statement is 'verifiable' (in Ayer's weak sense) when:
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By 'metaphysics' Ayer means claims about:
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A sentence that passes neither door of the test is, for Ayer:
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Why does Ayer's argument mean he is NOT an atheist?
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A sentence passes the verification principle if it is:
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Why does 'a transcendent God exists' fail the verifiable door?
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True or false? Ayer claims that God does not exist.
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True or false? Emotivism says 'stealing is wrong' MEANS 'I dislike stealing'.
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On Ayer's test, 'a transcendent God exists' comes out as:
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'Noncognitivism about religion' is the view that religious sentences:
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The two jobs a moral sentence does, on emotivism, are:
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True or false? A strong Paper-2 part (b) answer must reach a reasoned judgement, not just describe Ayer.
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Fill the gap: for Ayer a moral sentence expresses a feeling and tries to ______ others, rather than stating a fact.
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True or false? Ayer's principle tests whether a sentence is TRUE.
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Ayer's verification principle is first of all a test for whether a sentence is:
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A statement is 'analytic' when it is:
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The self-refutation objection says the verification principle:
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On Ayer's emotivism, saying 'stealing is wrong' is mainly a matter of:
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Fill the gap: by its own test the verification principle is neither analytic nor ______, so it seems to condemn itself.
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