PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Decision Matrix, Omnipotence, Omnibenevolence
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Lecture 11: necessary beings and wagers and evil. According to the positivists, every statement is (in principle) decidable. Either via understanding the concepts in the statement: this might be very hard (ex. Or we need to observe nature: this might be very hard, there must be some experience which, if one had it, would raise or lower the probability of the statement. Verificationists believe: if there is no way to verify a statement, it is meaningless . Do not confuse positivism with the need for science to make observable predictions. Let p be an unknown fact (there are lots) It is unknowable that p is unknowable: if you knew p was an unknowable fact, you would know p, thus it would stop being unknown. The design argument suggests some auxiliary hypotheses which make god exists falsifiable or verifiable. Possible example: since god is perfect, he will only make perfectly designed things.
