Positivism and christianity : a study of theism and verifiability
by Kenneth H. Klein
[目次]
I. Statement of the Issues.- A. Overview of the Positivist stand upon theism.- B. Exposition of the Positivist stand on the issues.- 1. "The statement that God exists is, at least putatively, a statement of fact".- 2. "A necessary condition of a genuine statement of fact is that it must be Verifiable".- 3. "The statement that God exists is not Verifiable".- Retrospect.- C. Appendix: Unintelligible words and unintelligible sentences.- II. Theism without belief in God.- A. Religious belief construed as a moral commitment.- B. Religious belief construed as "slanting".- C. Religious belief construed as the contemplating of a "symbol picture".- Discussion.- Transition to Chapters III and IV.- III. Testability and Factual Significance.- A. The search for a criterion of factual significance.- B. Formulations and difficulties.- 1. The paradigm case: The criterion of verifiability.- 2. The criterion of verifiability in principle.- 3. The extended criterion of verifiability in principle.- 4. The criterion of falsifiability in principle.- 5. The criterion of partial verifiability.- 6. The criterion of Verifiability.- C. Further problems.- 1. Statements about other minds.- 2. Statements about "unobservables" in science.- Retrospect.- IV. Are Theological Sentences Testable?.- A. Terrestrial falsifiability.- B. Eschatological verifiability.- C. Terrestrial verifiability.- Retrospect.- V. Dilemmas.- A. Summary of the argument.- B. Objections and dilemmas.- 1. Conclusive Verifiability.- 2. Verifiability in principle.- 3. Ad hoc exceptions.- 4. The translatability criterion.- 5. Falsifiability and theological statements.- 6. The transcendence of God.- Selected bibliography.
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Positivism and christianity : a study of theism and verifiability