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  1. verifiability principlenoun

    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.

  2. Etymology: Coined by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer circa 1936.

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  1. verifiability principle

    Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine which maintains that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cognitively meaningful, or else they are truths of logic (tautologies). Verificationism thus rejects statements related to metaphysics, as well as fields such as theology, ethics and aesthetics, as "cognitively meaningless". Such statements may be meaningful in influencing emotions or behaviour, but not in terms of conveying truth value, information or factual content. Verificationism was a central thesis of logical positivism, a movement in analytic philosophy that emerged in the 1920s by philosophers who sought to unify philosophy and science under a common naturalistic theory of knowledge.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of verifiability principle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of verifiability principle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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