PHL-206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biblical Literalism, Theism
26 Sep 2016
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Propositions: any sentence that has a truth value -true or false. (statement, claim, assertion: represents a possible state of affairs- the one that is the case if the proposition is true. God exists. aj ayers says that this is neither true nor false - cognitively meaningless. : belief that something is so. Difference between believe that and believing in. : a propositional altitude, different propositional altitudes, the altitude of a belief. Emotions are not irrational: verbs that express belief. Truth (beliefs about subjective vs. about objective states of affairs: disagreement. Requirements that two + people disagree in a belief is inconsistency. Inconsistency is determined when things can not all be true at once: justi cation. To justify a belief is to say you can give evidence or reasons in favor of the propositions truth. To say something is true is not the same as saying it is justi ed. Lack of evidence does not always been something is false.
