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Religious Language - AQA A-Level Religious Studies, Philosophy & Ethics notes (by an A* student!)

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    Religious Language - AQA A-Level Religious Studies, Philosophy & Ethics notes (by an A* student!)

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  • Covers Ayer's verification principle (& logical positivism), Popper's falsification principle, Hick's eschatological verification, Hare's bliks, Wittgenstein's language games, Aquinas - religious language as analogical (attribution and proportionality), the Via Negativa, Tillich - religious language as symbolic. Includes evaluation/argument points for all approaches to religious language - great for essays!
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Religious Studies A level OCR Philosophy Year 2: Religious Language: Wittgenstein

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    Religious Studies A level OCR Philosophy Year 2: Religious Language: Wittgenstein

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  • This 2 page document provides a summary of Wittgenstein's view of religious language, with criticisms along the way. What's inside: - Wittgenstein's picture theory - logical positivism with strengths and weaknesses - The vagueness of words - Wittgenstein's criticism of logical positivism - D.Z Phillips' view
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Philosophy Notes: A2 Religious Studies (OCR)

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    Philosophy Notes: A2 Religious Studies (OCR)

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  • This is a comprehensive set of notes covering all of the Philosophy content in A2 Level Religious Studies (OCR). Alongside the taught content, there are detailed arguments to use in exam essays, with full names of scholars to back up these arguments. There are also logical counter-arguments that can be used to support/disprove arguments in exam essays. I created these notes, which helped me to achieve an A* in Religious Studies, which included receiving a mark of 117 out of 120 in one of th...
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Twentieth Century Perspectives Notes for Religious Studies A Level

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    Twentieth Century Perspectives Notes for Religious Studies A Level

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  • These notes follow the specification whilst compiling information and knowledge from resources both within and outside of the curriculum. These notes cover all the necessary sub topics for the exam with key topics, such as the verification principle, Hume's fork, and the challenge of falsification, alongside key quotes and scholars.
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Philosophy Test Bank

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  • 1. Not investigating whether or not one's beliefs about the physical universe make sense in connection with their beliefs about their gods fails which criterion of good thinking/philosophy/science? a. consistency b. coherency c. adequacy d. applicability e. communicability b. coherency 2. Literary writing, like that of Hemingway or Steinbeck, a. mythic explana- in that it attempts to explain some aspect of human experience is an example of a. mythic explanation b. material explanation c....
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Religious Language A Level RS Notes

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    Religious Language A Level RS Notes

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  • Detailed notes on section 4 of the Pearson Edexcel A Level RS Specification (Paper 1 - Philosophy) Includes: Aquinas and analogy (Predicative; Proportional) Paul Tillich on Symbolism Rudolf Otto on numinosity Logical Positivism Ayer's Verification Principle Flew's Falsification Principle Wittgenstein on Language Games
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Ethical Language / Meta Ethics - RS A Level Ethics Paper 2

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    Ethical Language / Meta Ethics - RS A Level Ethics Paper 2

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  • Detailed notes according to specification on section 4 of RS Paper 2 on Ethical Language Includes information on: 4.1 (Cognitive and non-cognitive uses of language, realism and anti-realism, language as factual or symbolic, the nature of ethical assertions as absolutist or relative, ethical naturalism, the naturalistic fallacy, the is–ought gap, the problem of the open question, ethical non-naturalism, intuitionism, prescriptivism). 4.2 (Emotivism, the influence of the logical positivism ...
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Edexcel Religious Studies AS/A-Level - Unit 4 Religious Language - 4.2 Verification and falsification debates

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    Edexcel Religious Studies AS/A-Level - Unit 4 Religious Language - 4.2 Verification and falsification debates

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  • This essay covers unit 4.2 of the Edexcel Religious Studies specification - Analogy - in unit 4 Religious Language. It is used in Section C of Paper 1 (Question 4), includes a synoptic link, and can be tailored to earlier questions of the paper. This essay includes exploring verification and falsification to argue religious language is meaningless, examining ideas of A J Ayer and A Flew. Evaluations include ideas from other key scholars such as Hick and Hare, and the essay ends with a conclusion...
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Summary - H573/01 Philosophy of Religion - Religious Language

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    Summary - H573/01 Philosophy of Religion - Religious Language

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  • Notes covering the H573/01 Philosophy of Religion topic of Religious Language, with explanation and notes covering all the necessary content for the exams.
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Feminist perspectives and biological positivism in relation to crime, deviance and victimisation

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    Feminist perspectives and biological positivism in relation to crime, deviance and victimisation

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  • Essay exploring feminist perspectives and biological positivism in relation to contemporary society.
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