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Meanings of logical positivism in English

Portuguese
positivismo
Catalan
positivisme

The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

        positivismo
        Russian
        логический позитивизм
        Portuguese
        neopositivismo
        Spanish
        neopositivistas lógicos
        Catalan
        neopositivisme

        Assertion that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful.

              Related terms
              логический позитивизм
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              Usage of logical positivism in English
              1
              The early stirrings of logical positivism among the first Vienna Circle?
              The Guardian
              2
              Logical positivism had been only the first of those; Stochasticism, Amalfi strongly suspected, would be far from the last.
              Cities in Flight
              3
              Since the 19505, linguistic philosophers have criticised Logical Positivism, pointing out that what Ayer called the Verification Principle could not itself be verified.
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