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Logical positivism (also called logical empiricism and neo-positivism ) is a school of philosophy that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of ...
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A survey of the history of Western philosophy. ... Because the resulting logical positivism (or "logical empiricism") allowed only for the use of logical tautologies and first-person observations from experience, it dismissed as nonsense the metaphysical and normative pretensions of the philosophical tradition.
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Recommended Reading: A. J. Ayer, Logical Positivism (Free Press, 1966) {at Amazon.com}; Michael Friedman, Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge, 1999) {at Amazon.com}; and Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism, ed.
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Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism, is a philosophical attitude which holds, among other things, that metaphysics, more or less, is bunk. ... Critics of logical positivism have pointed out that since the verifiability principle itself cannot be proved true or false by means of experience,
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In the following masterful 1967 article, John Arthur Passmore (1914-2004) announces that: "Logical positivism... is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes. But it has left a legacy behind" (p. 57).
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Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - Logical Positivism ... The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its verifiability principle, developed as a means for identifying the second of the above two types of statements. According to this principle, the validity and meaning of any proposition is dependent upon whether...
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The main tenets of logical positivism pertain to the meaningfulness and verifiability of statements. ... The founder of logical positivism was Ernst Mach. Three stars of science guided Mach's epistemology:
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Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless. During 1930s the most important representatives of logical positivism emigrated to USA, where they influenced American philosophy.
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Article by Mauro Murz ... Vienna Circle was very active in advertising the new philosophical ideas of logical positivism. Several congresses on epistemology and philosophy of science were organized, with the help of the Berlin Circle.
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