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This classic essay is part of the Falsification Symposium, so in order to understand it you will need to have read the previous Anthology extract by Flew & Hare. Basil Mitchell is replying to Antony Flew's claim that religious language is meaningless because believers will not allow their statements to be falsified. Antony Flew then replies, offering a criticism of Mitchell's position and that of R.M. Hare from the previous extract.
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if there is nothing which a putative assertion denies then there is nothing which it asserts either; and so it is not really an assertion - Antony Flew