verifiability principle

verifiability principle
The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.

It is generally agreed among most advocates of the Verifiability Principle that analytic and empirical statements exhaust the class of cognitively meaningful statements.

Syn: criterion of verifiability, criterion of verification, principle of verifiability, principle of verification, verifiability criterion, verification criterion, verification principle

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