LA VERIFICABILIDAD DEL LENGUAJE RELIGIOSO: UN ANÁLISIS FILOSÓFICO

Damián Islas Mondragón

doi:10.24310/Raphisa.2019.v0i5.6212

Authors

Damián Islas Mondragón Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Mëxico Mexico http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8538-6835

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Raphisa.2019.v0i5.6212

Keywords:

MYSTICAL EXPERIENCIE, YOGA, RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE, EMPIRICAL VERIFIABILITY

Abstract

Mystical experiences and the knowledge they produce are communicated through a religious language. In this text I will present a case study of a yogic tradition in northern India, Surat Shabdt Yoga, which is practiced in order to obtain this type of experience. From the point of view of the verificationist theory of meaning developed by Alfred J. Ayer, the religious language has no meaning. My objective is to analyze and evaluate the verification theory and show that it not only refutes itself; it also exhibits certain logical, empirical and cognitive inconsistencies that weaken it as a good criterion to evaluate the significance of religious language. I will argue that instruments and methods of verification are constrained to our specific abilities, limits, expectations and cognitive interests; so that the truth value of the factual content of religious statements cannot be decided undoubtedly.

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Author Biography

Damián Islas Mondragón, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Mëxico

Docente e investigador del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango.

Tengo un Doctorado en Filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) de Mëxico y un Post-Doctorado por la Universidad de Toronto, Canadá.

Mis líneas de investigación son la filosofía de la ciencia y del lenguaje. De manera que este texto es un estudio sobre la posibilidad de verificación y significación de las proposiciones reliososas.

Algunos artículos recientes publicados son:

2018. Ernst Mach, Karl R. Popper and Thomas S. Kuhn: Aportaciones al estudio de los experimentos mentales.Revista Portuguesa de Filosofía, Vol. 74, No. 1: 133-150. Facultad de Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales de Braga, Portugal. ISSN: 0870-5283.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2018_74_1_0133

2017.The inference rule of addition and the semantic view of scientific progress: Reply to Mizrahi. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 31, No. 4: 421-425. Routledge. ISSN: 0269-8595.

DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02698595.2019.1565212

2017. Evaluating the cognitive success of thought experiments.Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, No. 3: 68-76. Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil. ISSN: 2526-2270.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2017.i3.06

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