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Belief in the verification principle.See Also: verificationist
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Verificationism — is the view that a statement or question is only legitimate if there is some way to determine whether the statement is true or false, or what the answer to the question is. It is a view mostly closely associated with the logical positivists of… … Wikipedia
Verificationism — an epistemic theory of truth based on the idea that the mind engages in a certain kind of activity: verifying a proposition. The distinctive claim of verificationism is that the result of such verifications is, by definition, truth. That is,… … Mini philosophy glossary
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Верификационнзм в философии — (verificationism), теория, согласно к рой истинность или ложность теоретич. положений науки может быть подтверждена только опытным путем. В. одно из осн. понятий логических позитивистов (логический позитивизм); на него значит, влияние оказала… … Народы и культуры
Falsifiability — Are all swans white? Falsifiability or refutability of an assertion, hypothesis or theory is the logical possibility that it can be contradicted by an observation or the outcome of a physical experiment. That something is falsifiable does not… … Wikipedia
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Epistemic theories of truth — In philosophy, epistemic theories of truth are attempts to analyze the notion of truth in terms of epistemic notions such as knowledge, belief, acceptance, verification, justification, and perspective. A variety of such conceptions can be… … Wikipedia
Linguistic meaning — See also Meaning (linguistics). Linguistic meaning is the content carried by the words or signs exchanged by people when communicating through language. Restated, the communication of meaning is the purpose and function of language. A… … Wikipedia
