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My name is Emily, I'm 17 and my birthday is November 7th. I am Russian, Jewish, Ukranian, French, Scottish and English and live in Gloucester, England.

I'm currently studying at The High School for Girls, Gloucester in sixth form. I'm taking Philosophy and Ethics, History, Chemistry and Biology. For my GCSE's, I got 2 A*, 4 A, 4 B and 1 C.

Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Is Religious language meaningful

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The Verification Principle is the view held by Logical Positivists that for a statement to be meaningful, it has to be verified either by analysing the content of the statement on the basis of empirical knowledge or by assessing it against empirical data. The Verification Principle can be seen as a challenge to religious belief because religious belief is based on faith and a priori knowledge whilst the Verification Principle states that all religious statements must be, therefore, meaningless, as they cannot be verified on the basis of any empirical knowledge or data. However, philosopher...

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