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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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"...

prosecution Evidence-based toxicology Falsifiability Hierarchy of evidence Logical positivism Mathematical proof National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

philosophers had viewed scientific anti-realism as dead, because logical positivism was dead. Van Fraassen showed that there were other ways to be an...