Philosophy A-Level
Wisdom's Gardener parable
What Wisdom's Gardener parable means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Wisdom's Gardener parable
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An explorer claims a gardener tends a clearing, but when every possible test fails the believer still insists the gardener is invisible and undetectable.
Topics that use Wisdom's Gardener parable
- Religious language (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cognitivism
- Contrast between verification and falsification
- Fact-stating versus expressive accounts
- Falsification principle
- Non-cognitivism
- Parable of the Partisan
- Provisional belief versus unfalsifiable blik
- The verification principle
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