Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...
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Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning a posteriori facts derived...
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Analytic philosophy (section Logical positivism)
Russell and Wittgenstein's philosophy into a doctrine known as "logical positivism" (or logical empiricism). The Vienna Circle was led by Moritz Schlick and...
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psychological investigations of folk legal concepts. Legal positivism is related to empiricist and logical positivist theoretical traditions. Its methods include...
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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...
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Philosophy of science (section Logical positivism)
meaningfulness and objectively assessing them. Karl Popper criticized logical positivism and helped establish a modern set of standards for scientific methodology...
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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...
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Demarcation problem (section Logical positivism)
philosophers of science. Logical positivism, formulated during the 1920s, is the idea that only statements about matters of fact or logical relations between...
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Rudolf Carnap (redirect from Logical Syntax of Language)
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...
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Empiricism (section Logical empiricism)
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...
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