PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eucharist, Falsifiability, Logical Positivism
17 Jan 2017
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Only significant propositions are those that can be verified. How can we verify this world of forms. Since we can"t verify this world of forms it"s unverifiable. Decent chunk of philosophy is nonsense then. We need to look at the premises and if the premises warrant the conclusion. There is no way sense data (everything we have starts with sense data) is going to justify. We can not experience perfect things in the world because they are not here. There must be some transcendent reality from where we got out perfect ideas. What does it mean for a statement to assert something/be significant. Significant if and only if it is verifiable. Sufficient condition of verifiability and sufficient condition of significance. Significance is necessary for verifiability (s>v) and if it is (v>s) Tautology: biconditional (something that can"t be false) P is significant if q and q is significant if and only if p is.
