Definitions for logical positivism
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1. positivism, logical positivismnoun

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

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1. logical positivismnoun

   A 20th century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations.

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1. logical positivism

   Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism or neopositivism, refers to a philosophical theory that emerged in the early 20th century, which advocates for the verification principle. This principle holds that a statement is meaningful only if it can be empirically verified or disproven, or if it is a tautology (a self-evident truth that follows logically from the meaning of its terms). Typically, logical positivists dismiss metaphysical arguments as meaningless due to their lack of empirical evidence. Logical positivism is characterized by a strong belief in science and its methods as the best means to ascertain truths about the world.

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1. Logical positivism

   Logical positivism or logical empiricism are variants of neopositivism that embraced verificationism, a theory of knowledge combining strong empiricism—basing all knowledge on sensory experience—with mathematical logic and linguistics so that scientific statements could be conclusively proved false or true. Verificationism was inextricably tied with the covering law model of scientific explanation. As variants of analytic philosophy, verificationism dominated Anglo-American philosophy from the 1930s into the 1960s. In the early 1920s, appalled both by the racism, bigotry, and nationalism flaring in Western society—as in the negative eugenics movement and World War I—and by the countermovement toward metaphysics, mysticism, and intuition, a group of scientists and philosophers were inspired by developments in mathematics, logic, linguistics, and physics, especially relativity theory, and sought to offer the world a transparent, meaningful, universal language. Hans Reichenbach led the Berlin Circle, while Moritz Schlick led the Vienna Circle, gathered around the University of Vienna and the Café Central. A 1929 pamphlet written by Otto Neurath, Hans Hahn, and Rudolf Carnap summarized the Vienna Circle's positions.

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