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...system of thought on the premise that no statement (except in logic and mathematics) may be considered meaningful if it is not potentially verifiable by evidence of the senses. The idea of God is one of the first things that logical positivists throw overboard. Last week Philosopher Tony Quinton of All Souls' College undertook to dispose of God in the heart of the enemy camp, the Roman Catholic undergraduate Aquinas Society...
Notice the Boop. To hear the assertion that God exists, declared handsome Tony Quinton, is like visiting a friend and having him ask: "Did you notice our boop when you came through the garden...
...said Quinton, is just about as evident as a boop. Then he went on to draw a prestidigitator's "proof" of God's nonexistence from Christian dogma: "God created the world." "World" in this sense, said Philosopher Quinton, means not "earth" but "everything...
...Believe. After 55 minutes of such fast-stepping talk, the Rev. Thomas Corbishley, chubby Jesuit Master of Oxford's Catholic Campion Hall, got to his feet. "Mr. Quinton," he began, "do you believe the statement that no statement is true unless it is verifiable...
...Certainly," replied Quinton. "How," asked Corbishley, "can you verify that statement?" Quinton admitted that this cornerstone of positivism is unverifiable...