Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive – meaning a posteriori facts derived...

Russell and Wittgenstein's philosophy into a doctrine known as "logical positivism" (or logical empiricism). The Vienna Circle was led by Moritz Schlick and...

scientific knowledge. Positivism was central to the foundation of academic sociology. Positivism may also refer to: Logical positivism, a school of philosophy...

meaningfulness and objectively assessing them. Karl Popper criticized logical positivism and helped establish a modern set of standards for scientific methodology...

truth is closely connected to the concept of a rule of inference. Logical positivism was a movement in the early 20th century that tried to reduce the...

In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts...

thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. Carnap's father had risen from being a poor ribbon-weaver to be the...

paradigm becomes the normal science new. Kuhn's thesis dissolved logical positivism's grip on Western academia, and inductivism fell. Besides Popper and...

a third doctor, and so on (also see the third man). Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to...

being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Waismann was...

philosophers of science. Logical positivism, formulated during the 1920s, is the idea that only statements about matters of fact or logical relations between...

are semantically literal, which logical positivism and instrumentalism deny. Constructive empiricism, logical positivism and instrumentalism agree that...

honour. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories...

influencing emotions or behavior. Verificationism was a central thesis of logical positivism, a movement in analytic philosophy that emerged in the 1920s by philosophers...

Popper's criticisms of logical positivism "devastating". In his view, Popper's most important argument against logical positivism is that, while it claimed...

forms of positivism. One of the first thinkers to criticize logical positivism was Karl Popper. He advanced falsification in lieu of the logical positivist...

position of the Vienna Circle was called logical empiricism (German: logischer Empirismus), logical positivism or neopositivism. It was influenced by Ernst...

June 1989) was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The...

published in 1937 that criticizes the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. The prolonged criticism of positivism led to the formation of two camps: on...

1934. Here, he criticised psychologism, naturalism, inductivism, and logical positivism, and put forth his theory of potential falsifiability as the criterion...

previously appeared as Philosophy in Russia in 1986. The eleventh volume Logical Positivism and Existentialism had previously appeared as the revised 1972 edition...

Scientific realism is developed largely as a reaction to logical positivism. Logical positivism was the first philosophy of science in the twentieth century...

existence in biological and scientific terms (as in pragmatism and logical positivism) to efforts to meta-theorize about meaning-making as a personal, individual-driven...

for their time. Hume left a legacy that affected utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, cognitive science...

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lack of sense in the context of sense and reference. In this context, logical tautologies, and purely mathematical propositions may be regarded as "nonsense"...

Quine and Wilfrid Sellars used a revised pragmatism to criticize logical positivism in the 1960s. Inspired by the work of Quine and Sellars, a brand of...

1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy Prussian...

author defines, explains, and argues for the verification principle of logical positivism, sometimes referred to as the criterion of significance or criterion...