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What premise is missing from logical positivism's argument about religion?
"There is a God" isn't empirical (testable by sense experience).
"There is a God" isn't analytic (true by definition).
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So: "There is a God" isn't a genuine truth claim.
{ 1 } - Religious beliefs are deeply emotional.
{ 2 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
{ 3 } - People's religious beliefs depend greatly on social influences.
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What premise is missing from logical positivism's argument about religion?
"There is a God" isn't empirical (testable by sense experience).
"There is a God" isn't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So: "There is a God" isn't a genuine truth claim.
{ 1 } - Religious beliefs are deeply emotional.
{ 2 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
{ 3 } - People's religious beliefs depend greatly on social influences.
This wouldn't make the argument valid.
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What premise is missing from logical positivism's argument about religion?
"There is a God" isn't empirical (testable by sense experience).
"There is a God" isn't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So: "There is a God" isn't a genuine truth claim.
{ 1 } - Religious beliefs are deeply emotional.
{ 2 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
{ 3 } - People's religious beliefs depend greatly on social influences.
This premise, which is the central claim of logical positivism, seems to be self-refuting. Since this premise itself isn't either analytic or empirical, it would follow that it can't be a genuine truth claim.
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What premise is missing from logical positivism's argument about religion?
"There is a God" isn't empirical (testable by sense experience).
"There is a God" isn't analytic (true by definition).
[... missing premise ...]
So: "There is a God" isn't a genuine truth claim.
{ 1 } - Religious beliefs are deeply emotional.
{ 2 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical or analytic.
{ 3 } - People's religious beliefs depend greatly on social influences.
This wouldn't make the argument valid.
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