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'Assertions such as "God is love" cannot be falsified, and so are completely meaningless.' Discuss. (45) In order to discuss whether the assertion "God is love" is completely meaningless according to Falsification; one must understand what Falsification is. Karl Popper developed the theory of Falsification- an adaptation of the logical positivists criterion for meaning. In philosophy, many of the conclusions of logical positivism were based on the idea that philosophy should model itself on science. Science was seen by the logical positivists as being concerned with the collection of information and the subsequent development of the theories; for example; a scientist might observe that whenever a piece of metal is heated it expands and, after making further observations, might conclude that all metal expands when it is heated. However this view of science was challenged by Popper; he argued that science did not move from observation to theory, but rather than theory...

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