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Boris Johnson’s Death By A Thousand Qualifications: Anthony Flew’s Falsification and Johnson’s Resignation

Trigger Warning and Content Warning – mentions of sex scandals and sexual assault.  If you have been affected by these issues, you can access Rape Crisis at 0808 802 9999 who help those who have been raped or sexually assaulted. Difficulty level: A-Level Contents Introduction On Thursday 7th June, Boris Johnson finally decided to resignContinue reading “Boris Johnson’s Death By A Thousand Qualifications: Anthony Flew’s Falsification and Johnson’s Resignation”

Dr John Frame: The Parable of the Invisible Gardener Part 3

Things to know: – Falsification (in Flew’s case) is the idea that a proposition or statement is meaningful only if there is a method that could falsify the statement. The statement doesn’t need to be false, but there must be a hypothetical situation in which the statement could be proved false. For instance, ‘the catContinue reading “Dr John Frame: The Parable of the Invisible Gardener Part 3”

The Invisible Gardener: Part 2 Flew (Famous Philosophical Thought Experiments 1)

If you missed part one on the creation of the Parable of the Invisible Gardener by John Wisdom and the problems of subjectivity in gaining knowledge, you can get it here. ~o~ Flew objected to Wisdom’s parable because he didn’t believe it was an accurate comparison to how we argue for the existence of God.Continue reading “The Invisible Gardener: Part 2 Flew (Famous Philosophical Thought Experiments 1)”