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Focus on these two statements, they are plausible but they may not be compatible.
"Chester is a sorcerer who lives in an magical castle."
"There are no such things as sorcerers living in magical castles."
There is no need to agree with these statements, you could argue and query them.
Respond to these claims from the perspective of key concepts listed below, their definitions are provided below:
- Logical positivism and verification
1. Logical positivism: a movement critical of metaphysics, arguing that all knowledge of the world must originate in sense
experience and logic.
2. Verificationist theory of meaning: the meaning of a statement is given by its conditions of verification.
3. Verificationist theory of truth: a sentence is only capable of truth or falsity if it is capable of being verified or falsified.
- Internal/External distinction:
1. Internal/External distinction: the distinction between questions or statements that are evaluated from within a linguistic framework and those that are evaluated from outside the framework, that may be about the framework itself.
- Metaphysics as modeling
1. Model: a theoretical structure involving a basic set of representational devices accounting for a set of data
2. Thought experiment: a fictional case used in order to draw out consequences of use to the building of a scientific or philosophical theory.