Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism or neo-positivism, was a philosophical movement, in the empiricist tradition, that sought to formulate...

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

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

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

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

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

In jurisprudence (also known as legal philosophy), legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts...

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

"logical atomism." Philosophers such as Willard Van Orman Quine, Hubert Dreyfus and Richard Rorty went on to adopt logical holism. Logical positivism Philosophy...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

classmates with Roderick Chisholm and Roderick Firth. Quine's seminars on logical positivism greatly influenced his view of philosophy, as they made him realize...

frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism and has been used by social scientists such as Friedrich Hayek, philosophers...

meaning is generally associated with the early 20th century movement of logical positivism. The traditional formulation of such a theory is that the meaning...

analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism, undermining the then-popular logical positivism, advocating instead a form of semantic holism and ontological relativity...

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

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

intuitively similar concept of verifiability that was then current in logical positivism. He argued that the only way to verify a claim such as "All swans...

the revival of metaphysics and essentialism after the decline of logical positivism, claiming necessity is a metaphysical notion distinct from the epistemic...

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...

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

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...