Tag: Religious Language
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Boris Johnson’s Death By A Thousand Qualifications: Anthony Flew’s Falsification and Johnson’s Resignation
Introduction On Thursday 7th June, Boris Johnson finally decided to resign as Prime Minister. For most, this departure was long overdue. While Johnson was Prime Minister, he oversaw multiple Tory MPs committing sex crimes, insisted on an ugly and expensive refurbishment of Ten Downing Street and fueled Party Gate. Such…
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Dr John Frame: The Parable of the Invisible Gardener Part 3
To find the other parts of the series, click here. Things to know: Who is John Frame? Born in 1939, Dr. John Frame is a professor of systemic theology at RTS Orlando. In 1974, he published a paper called ‘God and Biblical Language: Transcendence and Immanence’ in John Montgomery’s God’s…
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The Invisible Gardener: Part 2 Flew (Famous Philosophical Thought Experiments 1)
You can find the full series here. 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…
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The Invisible Gardener: Part 1 Wisdom (Famous Philosophical Thought Experiments 1)
You can find the full series here. The Parable of the Invisible Gardener is a philosophical thought experiment originated by John Wisdom. It’s main application is to religious language and how people lead to different conclusions about the existence of God from the same evidence. However, it demonstrates a wider…