Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Theology and Verification' and 'On the Pragmatics of Communications'

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5 ideas

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / c. Religious Verification

1470	Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG]

1471	It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification

1469	Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG]