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		<title>By: AS</title>
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		<description>Dear Mr. Ozar,

I realize that YU does not have strong suit in the history of philosophy, but even a cursory glance at some basic texts on the history of 20th Century philosophy, and in particular a chapter on logical positivism, would have made clear that Flew was working firmly in the tradition of Ayer&#039;s verificationism. As such, a proper construal of his argument is that &quot;God exists&quot; is meaningless because it is a synthetic proposition which is empirically unverifiable. Your counterexample of a mathematical truth would fail on this account because it is analytic.
Now, logical positivism has fallen by the wayside and Flew&#039;s (really Ayer&#039;s) argument holds little water for most contemporary philosophers, but I fail to see how resurrecting his argument devoid of the context of the synthetic/ analytic distinction he was working with makes any sense or advances a significant argument. What it does show is that YU philosophy majors appear woefully ignorant of their subject of study.

Given the ignorance displayed, I found the entire tone of your article, from the title onward, incredibly arrogant. Do you think Flew was just some idiot who was too dense to come up with your &quot;upshlug&quot;? Unfortunately, even years of learning Gemara and studying with David Johnson do not render the fact that you were &quot;unsuccessful in construing Professor Flew’s argument in any remotely compelling fashion&quot; to be of any significance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Ozar,</p>
<p>I realize that YU does not have strong suit in the history of philosophy, but even a cursory glance at some basic texts on the history of 20th Century philosophy, and in particular a chapter on logical positivism, would have made clear that Flew was working firmly in the tradition of Ayer&#8217;s verificationism. As such, a proper construal of his argument is that &#8220;God exists&#8221; is meaningless because it is a synthetic proposition which is empirically unverifiable. Your counterexample of a mathematical truth would fail on this account because it is analytic.<br />
Now, logical positivism has fallen by the wayside and Flew&#8217;s (really Ayer&#8217;s) argument holds little water for most contemporary philosophers, but I fail to see how resurrecting his argument devoid of the context of the synthetic/ analytic distinction he was working with makes any sense or advances a significant argument. What it does show is that YU philosophy majors appear woefully ignorant of their subject of study.</p>
<p>Given the ignorance displayed, I found the entire tone of your article, from the title onward, incredibly arrogant. Do you think Flew was just some idiot who was too dense to come up with your &#8220;upshlug&#8221;? Unfortunately, even years of learning Gemara and studying with David Johnson do not render the fact that you were &#8220;unsuccessful in construing Professor Flew’s argument in any remotely compelling fashion&#8221; to be of any significance.</p>
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