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The Falsification Challenge: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Thomas McPherson
Thomas McPherson
Affiliation:
Reader in Philosophy, University College, Cardiff
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In the last section of his article Professor Kellenberger says that Professor Flew misunderstands the nature of religious utterances. These are affirmations of belief or trust, whereas Flew treats them as if they were hypotheses. If ‘God loves us’ is held by someone as an hypothesis then it would be proper to ask what justifies him in holding it, and, equally, what would have to happen for him to feel that he could no longer justifiably hold it. But if ‘God loves us’ is said by someone as an affirmation of trust such questions seem out of place.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , October 1969 , pp. 81 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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