Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'English as a Formal Language', 'The Analyst' and 'Theology and Verification'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

18779

'The' is a quantifier, like 'every' and 'a', and does not result in denotation [Montague]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals

18091

Infinitesimals are ghosts of departed quantities [Berkeley]

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]