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A 20th century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations
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Logical positivism — logical positivism … Philosophy dictionary
Logical positivism — (also known as logical empiricism, scientific philosophy, and neo positivism) is a philosophy that combines empiricism the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical… … Wikipedia
logical positivism — logical positivist. a philosophical movement that stresses the function of philosophy as a method of criticizing and analyzing science and that rejects all transcendental metaphysics, statements of fact being held to be meaningful only if they… … Universalium
logical positivism — n. a movement in philosophy which tests all statements by reference to sense experience or the structure of language and is concerned with the unification of the sciences through a common logical language: also called logical empiricism … English World dictionary
logical positivism — noun the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) • Syn: ↑positivism • Derivationally related forms: ↑logical positivist, ↑positivistic (for: ↑positivism), ↑positivist … Useful english dictionary
logical positivism — Also known as logical empiricism and scientific empiricism; the ideas and attitude towards philosophy associated with the Vienna circle. This group was founded by Schlick in 1924, and in effect ended with his death in 1936 and the dispersal of… … Philosophy dictionary
Logical positivism — a philosophy (of science), that originated in the Vienna Circle in the 1920s, which holds that philosophy should aspire to the same sort of rigor as science. Philosophy should provide strict criteria for judging sentences true, false and… … Mini philosophy glossary
logical positivism — (also logical empiricism) noun a form of positivism which considers that the only meaningful philosophical problems are those which can be solved by logical analysis … English new terms dictionary
logical positivism — noun Date: 1931 a 20th century philosophical movement that holds characteristically that all meaningful statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment and that metaphysical theories … New Collegiate Dictionary
logical positivism — See positivism ; Vienna Circle … Dictionary of sociology
