Philosophy A-Level
Fact-stating versus expressive accounts
What Fact-stating versus expressive accounts means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The contrast between treating religious utterances as describing reality and treating them as expressing attitudes, commitments or emotions rather than factual beliefs.
Topics that use Fact-stating versus expressive accounts
- Religious language (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cognitivism
- Contrast between verification and falsification
- Falsification principle
- Non-cognitivism
- Parable of the Partisan
- Provisional belief versus unfalsifiable blik
- The verification principle
- Trust and commitment
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